On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 07:16:45PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Right, there are many paths to insanity there. That's why we should get
> rid of the whole thing altogether.
 
 I am strongly with ulm on this, we should get rid of $Id$ expansion
 altogether, especially since there is a way to generate the hashes that
 $Id$ would create  from the command line.

 If folks want to use the hashes in a work flow some how they can, but
 they definitely do not belong in the ebuilds.

 William