I'll move the discussion of https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/issue/164/pasted-text-not-in-repeat-ring to the mailing list in case others are interested. The topic is what Evil does with the repeat ring when the user pastes text (via eg X11) while in insert mode.
vim has similar problems and a simple "solution" everything before the mouse click is dropped and the recording starts again. Probably the vim people have no good solution for the mouse-click problem, too.
I see what you mean in gvim. If point moves due to mouse click it starts the recording again, though if I mouse-click where point already is, it doesn't drop the recording. I think gvim's behavior makes sense actually, given a mouse click is deemed non recordable.
Probably most evil-users do not use the mouse that often anyway
The choice is limited if pasting from another application's frame. I just realized I made a language error when I said "window" in the original description. I meant "frame" or "the desktop environment's window". Sorry about that.