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From: "Gareth Pearce" <tilps AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: -src package standard: proposal #5 and #5a
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 00:56:47 +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.

I see consitency for the user, through the shell script... define a set of
standard parameters that it should support 'aka standard makefile
parameters' - and theres all the consistancy you should need... or at least
in my little world that makes sense...

Once you unpack and apply the first meta-patch your going to be losing
consistency rapidly anyway from there on in...

Aditional files are not 'inconsistancies' if the user doesnt have to
especially consider them due to the interface provided.

*shrug*

Gareth