On 01/10/13 21:18, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have not looked at the patch yet, but my initial impression is that >> the additional flag should not be needed. For non-vcs files, we >> extract the source over the top of whatever is in $srcdir. We should do >> the same for VCS sources. >> >> Why may be worth having a flag for is to delete the source directory >> before starting: >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17175 >> >> Other opinions here? >> >> Allan >> > > I don't mind doing that either. I just didn't want to change the > existing behaviour because I thought that there is some reason to > delete sources by default. I guess changing the default behaviour to > what --incremental is supposed to do and fixing FS#17175 may be in > fact simpler. >
I guess the current delete source was due to me either building in a clean chroot or outside the source directory meaning it made no difference for me. I am happy with the default changing. Allan
