On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 07:23:50 -0500 Lucas Goss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:

> >> Despite the correct use of of cvs options, whole directories that
> >> where supposed to get deleted had not been.
> >
> > thats not the cvs mirror :)
> 
> haha. well why not use subversion?

red cape. bull. beware.

> >> well enlightenment.freedesktop.org provides tarballs that get made
> whevere cvs
> >> is kind of stable and workable every week or 2 - but people barely use it.
> >> somehow people are addicted to HAVING to use cvs and get the "latest". :/
> >
> > That might be partially the fault of install scripts...
> 
> I agree. I even wrote my own script for such a purpose. It's much
> easier to run a script that takes care of downloading, updating,
> compiling, and installing all in one shot. Just run the script and
> you're done. And I only update about once every 2 weeks or so.
> 
> Is there a way to have the script download the tarballs (I'm still
> pretty new to the shell and scripts)? And is everything in those
> tarballs? It seems like the cvs has a lot more applications and libs
> than just those 14 tarballs.

correct. most of them are trinkets someoen wrote once for fun - many dont build
anymore, much is deprecated etc. we have too many thigns going on. we need to
trim down our work - not expand it.

-- 
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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
裸好多
Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本)


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