Re: Interested in the source code of other distros

2012-02-13 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:39:11PM -0500, Jon Stanley wrote: > I'm not trying to discourage you, but think long and hard that you are > *really* serving a need that can't be served by "standing on the > shoulders of giants" - using something that already exists as a base. > It happens that I think

Re: Interested in the source code of other distros

2012-02-13 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Jason Hsu wrote: > Are there any good reasons for distros to NOT have all of their source code > available in one place? Yes, there are. Git is a very good tool for distributed source development. But it is a very bad tool for storing versioned tarballs. Imagine that every package maintainer wou