I don't think that I would want to try to emulate someone else's technique -- at least not in any wholesale way.
Like anyone else, I grab licks and some very specific methods or means from other players, but I like to think that whatever technique I develop is one I can call my own.
I have, over time, begun to develop a style and part of that style is the way I play the notes which, in many cases is different from how things are taught. I play boxes differently than how they're taught, I have developed "workarounds" for fingerings that I find difficult to execute and I play many chords differently than how "the book" says to play them.
That's a result (and in my opinion one of the major benefits) of never having taken a lesson from anyone.
With no plan or preconceived ideas of how things are done, I learned by sounding things out and thus developed my own way of figuring things out and ultimately my own way of playing.
I have learned several tricks and shortcuts from other people and have gleaned quite a bit of information from videos and even from some of the discussions here on this site. But a lot of the little licks, quick phrasings and ways to play them I think of as my own. I'm not suggesting that no other guitarist has ever played them before (I know for a fact that I've heard many of them before in one form or another), but rather that I discovered/developed them on my own and in
that sense they're mine.
I like to try to copy certain things from time to time, such as many of Gilmour's "trademark" licks, for example.
But I don't think I'd like to copy everything he or anyone else does in its entirety because that would tend to take the "me" out of the equation.
I can certainly swipe a few things from other players and mix it in to whatever I'm playing.
But I don't want the finished product (is there such a thing?) to sound like them.
I want it to sound like me.