Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
- Date
- Oct 18, 2006, 21:41 UTC
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> There are bigger reasons to _never_ allow packs to contain deltas to > outside of themselves: > > - there's no point.
Remember what I said earlier: "If there are advantages to do so then maybe." So far there are none.
> You could end up with a situation where you get two packs from two > different sources, and they contain deltas to _each_other_, and you > have no way of actually generating the object itself any more.
To me this is the real killer.
Shawn was talking about a different issue though.
Nicolas