Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:21:43 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> Subject: Re: CVS removal from the base Message-ID: <4ED9EA27.8090206@inse.ru> In-Reply-To: <4ED974A2.7080606@FreeBSD.org> References: <CADe0-4kEJsj5pe6h4ZVPGg-hFEjE7oC4Ya8VO7sdW9W3WZiajg@mail.gmail.com> <20111202115446.GB25963@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <CADe0-4=8z%2BpFAem83xMkYXYZCgCt9r_tX64he5Vx95OkAJqtFQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmonQQ-yHrDox35gpuaXXYV5j%2BUXOJH5jr93m3j=uBgbkWA@mail.gmail.com> <4ED974A2.7080606@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote: > [...] > The fact that we have so many people who are radically change-averse, no > matter how rational the change; is a bug, not a feature. > > This particular bug is complicated dramatically by the fact that the > majority view seems to lean heavily towards "If I use it, it must be the > default and/or in the base" rather than seeing ports as part of the > overall operating SYSTEM. > You are right in general, except one small factor. We are talking about bootstrap. CVS is used by many as the one of the ways to get the sources to the freshly installed system to recompile to the last available source. It will become inconvenient to do it through the process of installing some ports for that. Especially if corresponding ports would require some other ports as dependences. rik > > Doug > >
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