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Date:      Sat, 3 Dec 2011 21:23:03 +0600
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net>
To:        Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CVS removal from the base
Message-ID:  <CADe0-4mXG4pE7aw_8drH8BPS98spPceHeghwYfcKgyAfEjMGng@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4ED9EA27.8090206@inse.ru>
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Rik,

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru> 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.

Do you really use CVS and not cvsup/csup? CVS != csup.

Max



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