On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 22:15, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > If we have a checksum, what's the point? > > Why not just include the original source the checksum is taken from?
The point is keeping very exact track of what the source is. And the point is making it easy for distributors to build without the bundled dependencies. It would be great to also ship an artefact without the bundled deps, but that might be a tad too much work... Cheers, Dirkjan
