Re: Can't update package index

"SL Baur" <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: To make this more clear: Linus is important because many people decide to pull from him. But you can pull from multiple sources, and people can decide to pull from you (if you want to offer some stuff). Linus' tree is just one of several important sources. People can decide to never pull anything from him, and get away fine. And everybody is free to decide just what patches he considers fit for merging into his own tree, and what remote tree he considers fit for rebasing his work on (rebasing means rewinding history to a common ancestor, applying all the other commits, then reapplying those commits not already in that set again). Before you submit against the version of somebody else, it is a good idea to rebase on his work, even if just in a separate branch (creating private branches is dirt cheap in git). If Linus dropped out of the game, development would continue. People would at some point converge to some favorite preferred points to pull from, but there would be no deadlock or vacuum in the mean time. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta