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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Gareth Pearce" <tilps AT hotmail DOT com>, <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: -src package standard: proposal #5 and #5a
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 00:47:14 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gareth Pearce" <tilps AT hotmail DOT com>
To: <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: -src package standard: proposal #5 and #5a


> Hi
>
> umm ... Robert, am I reading this wrong or are you agreeing to
meta-patches
> being ugly?

Yeap, they are not pretty. I've said that before too. I think that the
pristine source + consistency for the user *should* outweight that.

> This kind of points strongly against your own #3 and if so,
> what points do you have against #5 ?

I had none. If you read carefully I said "cool, what about splitting out
that top level script if they are all the same (and with meta patches
they should be)."

Rob