[Mageia-dev] sync with mandriva

Mon Nov 8 12:41:55 CET 2010

Michael Scherer said on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 12:37:44PM +0100:
+
+> Le lundi 08 novembre 2010 à 12:11 +0100, Bruno Cornec a écrit :
+> > Michael Scherer said on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 12:04:25PM +0100:
+> > > separated svn for tarball. 
+> > 
+> > What does it bring ?
+> 
+> compared to current situation, it allow us to clean it more easily the
+> tarball from svn. The goal was to prevent endless growth of the
+> repository.
+
+I understand that point, but not the reason to put at all the tar in
+SVN.
+
+> Well, a flat or a directory like structure for perf reason, yes. But it
+> was discussed some years ago on maintainers@, and so I think this was
+> raised as well, except that I do not remind the outcome. Spuk did the
+> work, so you need to ask him. 
+
+Well, I thought that a new distro could afford discussing again some of
+the choices that have prooved to be problematic in the past thus my msg.
+I'm not sure that history is so important that opinion of people who
+will manage that in the future.
+
+Bruno.
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