Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 05:08:36 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/picobsd/build picobsd Message-ID: <20040321050836.B22290@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403210655170.27871-100000@pancho>; from linimon@lonesome.com on Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 07:03:02AM -0600 References: <20040321123727.GB51452@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403210655170.27871-100000@pancho>
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 07:03:02AM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > The usual rule of thumb for a new category is that it must > > contain 10 ports and have significant reason for a separate existence. > > Since picobsd seems to be essentially a dead project I'd need to be > > convinced that the category should remain. > > IMHO one of these things should happen: > > 1. As Kris says, just move it to net/ and delete the category. and just for the records, that one port is ssh-picobsd so it would go back to security! > 2. Move picobsd/ to meta/ and make that the home for meta-ports, > such as things like docproj and instant-workstation, that do not > in and of themselves install any particular software, and instead > specify a set of other ports to install. (NetBSD has this as a > way to tell users, "start here"). I would volunteer to do work > on proposing and working the repocopies. this sounds almost exactly like what i had in mind. glad we found a volunteer :) There is still the issue of OS version-dependent files such as kernel config files... cheers luigi >
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