> On 11/10/2021, at 14:00, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 5:49 PM François Bissey <frp.bis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> One annoying thing about monorepo from a downstream perspective - but only
>> for people crazy enough to package a development branch (OK that would be me
>> and not many other people :) ).
>> The split packages have their setup.py or equivalent in
>> SAGE_ROOT/pkgs/pkg_name and some links to the single sage source tree from
>> there. Examples: sagemath-standard, sage_setup and sage_docbuild. To package
>> these I pull the full tree :( and then I don’t go to SAGE_ROOT/pkgs/pkg_name
>> and build from there.
>
> I don't understand what you're doing. However, I just want to point
> out that it is possible to use Git to only pull a selected directory
> (or directories) from a Git repo with no history. See, e.g., the
> discussion of "sparse checkout" here.
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/600079/how-do-i-clone-a-subdirectory-only-of-a-git-repository
I don’t know if it can be used inside Gentoo ebuilds but this is an interesting
thing to be able to do. I will certainly explore that possibility but if it
doesn’t replace symlinks in a particular subdirectory it may all be in vain.
François
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