Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:21:48 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add Makefile add.h extract.c futil.c main.c perform.c pkg_add.1 src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/create Makefile create.h main.c perform.c pkg_create.1 pl.c src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete Makefile delete.h main.c perform.c ... Message-ID: <20040812162148.GM57908@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20040812085554.M773@ync.qbhto.arg> References: <20040812012909.GA25768@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <2CD52765-EC03-11D8-887A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> <20040812030913.GD27338@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <1092287083.796.29.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> <20040812053107.GK57908@elvis.mu.org> <20040812154941.GJ32036@sirius.firepipe.net> <20040812085554.M773@ync.qbhto.arg>
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* Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> [040812 09:06] wrote: > > I find this line of reasoning very interesting in light of the > disagreement I'm currently having with eik about repo copying a port I'm > working on. On the one hand, you and he are arguing that it's perfectly > ok to break POLA in -stable because the new stuff is better, and the old > stuff sucked anyway. On the other hand, eik and one other member of the > portmgr team are arguing that an old port's revision history is so > incredibly valuable that it must be preserved, even though it has > little relevance to the new port. I'd find this funny if it weren't so > sad. It's upsetting that the two concerns are: 1) Breaking POLA because somehow someone on the team knows what's better for users, somehow this is OK. 2) Preserving repo history, that the user couldn't give two shits about. I would have made another port, at least for a couple of months. I don't care about the history, as long as you're not taking away a widely used tool (no matter how much it "sucks") and forcing people to upgrade. -- - Alfred Perlstein - Research Engineering Development Inc. - email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684
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