Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Little example, where I'm working on right now: coreutils and gnulib. > Imagine, these jerks not just collected hundreds of (sometimes really > broken) tests and workarounds instead of fixing the source - they > also collected them in another "package" called gnulib, which gets > fetched via git (from the current head instead of some release tag!) > and _copied_ into the coreutils source tree by some obscure > "bootstrap" script. Wow, self-modifying code.
I agree that this is a deficiency, and that there should instead be an explicit dependency on what is effectively an external package. But usually this is easy to fix in an ebuild. //Peter
