Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch and linux 2.7

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Robert Collins <address@hidden>
    > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 04:18, Tom Lord wrote:

    > >   A master repository with slavishly converted history-of-the-world
    > >   _might_ help make those "leaf node infrastructures" easier to set
    > >   up, but it's not obviously the faster, cheaper, better approach.
    > >   The master repository might just be make-work.

    > I think there is one important use for a master repository: a well known
    > source for kernel file id's. If Tom, Dick and Harry all create their own
    > arch repositories from the kernel tarballs/svn tree/cvs tree/bk tree,
    > they will not be able to exchange arch changesets.

Let's split some (relatively thick, actually) hairs.

A "master repository" that provides a reference for ids: good thing,
probably (though, now that you raise it..... at least an assumption to
question a bit).

A "master repository" that tries to encode all previous (or even
ongoing) history at some arbitrarily fine level of granularity:  uh,
sounds like make-work to me.

-t