Re: [Gnu-arch-users] designing how to kill pristine trees

[Bruce Stephens]

Robert Collins <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 08:37, Miles Bader wrote:
>> Maybe an automatic `subdirectory of the parent of the outermost
>> {arch}-containing dir' type thing, vaguely like tla's current
>> sibling-pristine hack?
>
> Yuck. Just symlink ~/.arch-cache somewhere sensible.
>
> Otherwise, some folk will end up with the cache at /.arch-cache.

I think the idea is that ~/.arch-cache is just a default, for when
someone first builds tla and does "tla get ...".  But experienced
users will configure it suitably for their environment.  So symlinks
shouldn't be necessary, although that would be one way to do it.

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