25 Jan
2012
25 Jan
'12
11:58 a.m.
Baho Utot wrote:
On Wednesday 25 January 2012 12:58:22 pm Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
[putolin]
Of course, as long as they are still used, they need to stay. But for
historical records, there are the old Git revisions.
The point of clutter is not so much regarding
disk space as it is to
having extra files that are maybe completely unused. At some point in
the future it could be confusing what files are still necessary for
building and which ones just contain information.
Because everything is still available through the revision system
anyhow, it should not be necessary to keep these files in the source
package. In addition the revision system will give you information about
all the changes made to these files in the past, so you can get even
more info in that way.
Julius
They are not very big and can aid in packaging.
I would rather see them deleted _AFTER_ the cmake conversions are completed
and the packages build and work on most distributions.