On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:45:16 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > And yes, it is *very* unlikely that someone uses a slotted live > > ebuild with two branches being meaningful and managed in the same > > repo. Even if such thing exists, it is broken anyway because you > > can't say that re-fetching the branches back and forth is a correct > > solution. And it breaks existing tools anyway. > > This is done large-scale for all KDE ebuilds (in the KDE overlay) to > support master and KDE/4.x stable branch. Most use git, so no > problem; some (still) use subversion but will be migrated upstream > soon(?). > > Other examples are libreoffice (main tree, git) and cups (main tree, > subversion).
I guess that's a pretty comprehensive "we need to do this properly" then. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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