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From: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: GIT and CVS
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DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:

> My old argument is... How many copies of libiberty do you want to
> maintain?  How many copies of bfd?  of the toplevel build machinery?  Of
> include or libdecnumber or whatnot?

One, and one only.  I'm just trying to understand why these separate
projects are hosted alongside GDB.  And why they should continue to be.
I am not being dismissive, or stand-offish about this, I just don't see
why this co-community needs to exist in lock-step with GDB.  As I said
in a previous reply, there are many, many build dependencies required to
build GDB beyond what is stored in the current CVS.

I am just trying to understand the force of history here.

Cheers,

Phil