On Tue, 18 May 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On May 18, 2004, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 May 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> Oh, that's what you want disttags for? Sorry, but it isn't going to > >> work. > > > I disagree, it certainly can work, if used properly. This is exactly > > what many 3rd party repos are doing *right now*. > > Yeah, but they do it in a totally different way. > > The way 3rd party repos do it is to have the very same sources built > for multiple OS versions. Yes, exactly. In the case where that is not true, dist_tags are harmless, so this shouldn't be used as an argument against using them. -- Rex
