Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Are pristine trees really dead?

[Florian Weimer]

Miles Bader wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:04:07AM +0100, Robin Farine wrote:
> > If you do a normal 'get', it will not populate the library since 'get'
> > does not need anything from it. Instead, try 'get --link'.
> 
> Ah, good point; --link isn't necessary though, if you have a greedy library,
> it should add a library revision as soon as you need one, e.g., if you do
> `tla changes' or something (and of course get shouldn't create a pristine dir
> underneath {arch}).

Well, it doesn't happen.

So pristine trees aren't really dead now.  Good to know.