RFC: Exploded source repo layouts

[Andreas Ericsson]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> Doug Ledford wrote:
>> I've been working on getting this set up and functional.
> 
> <lots of complicated hacks and workarounds deleted>
> 
> So Far I've been quiet on this, sort of hoping it would go away by 
> itself, but as a contributor with quite a few packages let me say that 
> I'm deeply worried about this whole distributed VCS / exploded source 
> idea floating around.
> 

Does any of those upstream packages use a dvcs as their source control
tool?

> It seems there are a few people who are a big fan of this, and about as 
> much active opponents. I have no problems with adding the possibility to 
> use a distributed VCS with exploded trees to the mix of ways to maintain 
> and build packages, but this should not replace the current nice and 
> simple setup we have.
> 

Noone has proposed replacing the existing setup, so the rest of your
email can safely be delegated to /dev/null.

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