Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2024 13:02:30 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM) Message-ID: <202409081302.488D2UvB069580@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <908e7c45fbcea4634427b8d065bb2f20@Leidinger.net> References: <202409031532.483FW0If007252@critter.freebsd.dk> <908e7c45fbcea4634427b8d065bb2f20@Leidinger.net>
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-------- Alexander Leidinger writes: I'm only going to answer two bits from your email: > > The source tree became our citadel: "FreeBSD is src". If something > > was not in src, it was not FreeBSD. > > We are way past that too, FreeBSD is src+ports+docs(+community). Nope. The only reason the Rust advocates need to bring this up is /precisely/ because that is not the case. If it were, they would just have added ports. > In your world. And in the world of some other people. But there are a = > lot of worlds where this is not true. I have systems which are updated = > from src, and use only packages which are build locally. Beware of selection bias. "Somebody who compiles from src" is almost the literal definition of "comm= itter". In terms of all the FreeBSD running hardware out there, not even one percent of one percent of the machines compile from src. (Hint: Consumer electronics and server farms running FreeBSD) Poul-Henning -- = Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe = Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence= .
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