On May 18, 2004, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)ATrpms.net> wrote:
The bottom line is disttags bring a lot of benefits as can bee seen
in
their implementation in the wild, have caused no harm, and come at
very little expense.
I don't see benefits for the core proper, and I do see problems. So
it's not as clear-cut as you say. The reality of add-on repositories
is quite different because their goal is to use the same package on
multiple OSs. Issuing updates doesn't work that way.
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