On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 12:21 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > | The eselect developers want to keep all eselect modules in their svn > | repository and distributed through a single package (app-admin/eselect). > | Their main reasons for this are better QA and less overhead for releases > | and merging. > > And unnecessarily tying releases together of things that have no reason > to be tied together. > > It's fine to keep all the source in the same repository, but don't lock > releases of unrelated modules together. That's the same thing X went > through and has finally learned with the modularization effort.
There's also the size issue. I use opengl-update on the LiveCD builds, and have exactly zero need for *any* other eselect module, so why should I be required to have them all to just get the one that I need? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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