Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: cacherev policy script

[Miles Bader]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:33:20PM -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > When I (too rarely) make emacs cacherevs, I'm very careful to place them
> > a fair number of revisions before the latest, because if I don't, someone
> > using my tree to do _updates_ can get a cacherev, which is extremely
> > horrible in the case of emacs.  This problem would go away if tla used
> > smarter algorithm to choose when to use cachrevs, of course... :-/
> 
> Note that people with revlibs are using the library-add algorithm, which 
> will pick revlibs over same-version cacherevs.

Ok, maybe that's not a problem these days then.  I don't remember the last
time I was burned by this, but it may well have pre-dated greedy revlibs --
I've been so very careful ever since that I've never had a chance to test
it... :-)

-Miles
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