Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 15:13:45 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: "Andrew A. Chernov" <ache@freefall.cdrom.com>, adam@freefall.cdrom.com, alm@freefall.cdrom.com, ats@freefall.cdrom.com, bde@freefall.cdrom.com, csgr@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-ports@freefall.cdrom.com, davidg@freefall.cdrom.com, dfr@freefall.cdrom.com, dyson@freefall.cdrom.com, gclarkii@freefall.cdrom.com, gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com, guido@freefall.cdrom.com, hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, joerg@freefall.cdrom.com, julian@freefall.cdrom.com, jvh@freefall.cdrom.com, karl@freefall.cdrom.com, martin@freefall.cdrom.com, nate@freefall.cdrom.com, paul@freefall.cdrom.com, phk@freefall.cdrom.com, proven@freefall.cdrom.com, rgrimes@freefall.cdrom.com, rich@freefall.cdrom.com, se@freefall.cdrom.com, sean@freefall.cdrom.com, sef@freefall.cdrom.com, smace@freefall.cdrom.com, sos@freefall.cdrom.com, swallace@freefall.cdrom.com, torstenb@freefall.cdrom.com, wollman@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/ncftp/patches patch-aa Message-ID: <28994.780272025@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Sep 94 10:11:31 PDT." <199409221711.KAA12730@precipice.Shockwave.COM>
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> Andrew, I want to make myself clear as to why I'm asking you to not > move ncftp into the source tree. Paul, Why must you insist on remaining silent for the entire duration of a converstation and then come in when everything has been decided and throw your wrench in? We talked about how NCFTP was necessary for automated bootstrapping of both ports and (hopefully) an installation across the net, and using ncftp to bootstrap itself onto a new system isn't all that kosher. I've explained ALL OF THIS BEFORE and I'm not really in the mood to do it all again for the 12th time. Poor Andrew's only doing what we ASKED him to do, for christ's sake! The point is not to turn FreeBSD into something bloated, the point is to AVOID bloat by giving the users the right out-of-box tools they need to grow or shrink it dynamically, and preferably without having to have too much knowledge of the internals (you should be able to just select what you do and do not want from a list of choices). So unless YOU are prepared to hack our existing ftp to accept URLs and fetch unattended, I don't see what choice we have. If you feel that strongly about it, then I'll be expecting your patches to ftp sometime in the next 72 hours. Jordan
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