On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:53:51 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:46:54 +0100 > Luca Barbato <[email protected]> wrote: > > master is just a name, you may have the main development happen in > > another branch (say devel) and the stabler tree is kept on the > > master branch and you may want to track both as well. > > > > Or even worse, you get two lines of development you want to track > > that stay in completely different vcs. And that is the case of a > > real package, not theory. In those cases having a template could > > help a bit, having -scm + useflag is exactly the same as having bare > > useflags and slots. > > Yes, sometimes upstreams are insane. Then we can't deal with them. > We're aiming to handle the large majority of sensible cases here, not > the things that don't map onto version concepts in any way. > > > >> Then if you continued to read you'll notice that > > > > > > ...you got so incoherent I gave up trying to work out what you're > > > on about. You still haven't shown how to solve the simple example > > > I gave earlier in the thread. > > > > Relying to offense because I just pointed out something you > > dislikes since you cannot find a argumentative way reply isn't > > exactly polite or mature. > > No. Really. Again. You've been steadily talking nonsense on this whole > issue. Please step back, start again and clearly and concisely explain > in coherent English how you solve the simple example I gave earlier in > the thread. I am far from the only person who hasn't managed to work > out your explanation of this simple case so far. I'm sorry, Luca, but I can't do what I want to do with your proposal. With the -scm suffix I can. Actually I thought this was settled. What exactly is the issue holding GLEP 54 back that we need more discussion and different proposals? -- gcc-porting, by design, by neglect treecleaner, for a fact or just for effect wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662
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