From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19105 invoked by uid 1002); 14 Jul 2003 17:56:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 9924 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2003 17:56:03 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:55:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030714123616.GA6884%chutz@gg3.net> <1058189075.12265.3.camel@phaze> In-Reply-To: <1058189075.12265.3.camel@phaze> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_r6uE/dSaW8oyj6j"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200307141955.56456.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.1 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] app-cvs X-Archives-Salt: 01db345e-b865-4020-a0d2-6a0aad3f97a3 X-Archives-Hash: 44cd99e6db56e6aa07cd2f87cb512aed --Boundary-02=_r6uE/dSaW8oyj6j Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 14 July 2003 15:24, Todd Berman wrote: > Just in general, app-cvs is a 'BAD' idea. > > It defeats the *entire* purpose of what is going on in general. > > However, I fully agree with known good cvs-snapshots being used for > packages in the portage tree, but live cvs ebuilds prevent any sort of > QA in general being done on Gentoo's end. And if you are really wanting > to use cvs, its assumed that you will be updating and recompiling fairly > often, and a live-pull cvs ebuild doesnt really help you. > > In general, baring notable exceptions (gaim-cvs, private live-cvs pull > ebuilds) I dont think live-cvs ebuilds are a good idea at all, and > surely not a sound reason to add a category just for their use. > I fully agree with this. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_r6uE/dSaW8oyj6j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/Eu6rbKx5DBjWFdsRAi7DAKDLLkPR4JHHT2v5+nnyrCluN6t5CwCg1sjD VNEU26uQ2KatCEQr1TWu0e0= =0Q+B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_r6uE/dSaW8oyj6j--