>>>>> On Sat, 12 Sep 2015, Justin Lecher (jlec) wrote: > I would like to discuss the pro and cons of usage of symlinks in the > tree, which are possible now as we aren't bound to CVS anymore
> We have quite a number of ebuilds already in the tree defining > functionality for both, regular version and live versions. These are > typical candidates. Same for different package versions with the > same ebuild. > [...] > nevertheless, we would slim the tree and reduce work when changing > things like HOMEPAGE. IIUC git will only store one copy of duplicate files, so using symlinks won't save any space in the repository. Also I suspect that symlinks would soon cause a mess when package versions are stabilised. Ulrich
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