On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:49:03 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:45:16 +0200
> "Andreas K. Huettel" <[email protected]> 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.

Did I say we don't need to? We have the two eclasses which need to do
this properly, right? So what's your problem?

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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