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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:41:36 -0400 (EDT)
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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