From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 26 20:50:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A57BF16A46C for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:50:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AB4F13C4F9 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:50:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 23990 invoked by uid 399); 26 Oct 2007 20:23:48 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO slave.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTP; 26 Oct 2007 20:23:48 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:23:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: Freddie Cash In-Reply-To: <200710251516.19505.fjwcash+freebsd@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <200710252120.l9PLKYFJ041330@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> <47210FBE.6080803@gmail.com> <20071025220742.GA45217@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <200710251516.19505.fjwcash+freebsd@gmail.com> X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 0xD5B2F0FB Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-BETA1.5 ISO/ftp X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:50:28 -0000 On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Freddie Cash wrote: > Maybe not, but for the bulk of the users of cvsup, csup is a drop-in > replacement. It would be correct to say something like, "If you are checking out the tree, csup is a drop-in replacement." The statement is not correct without qualification since "drop-in replacement" has a well understood meaning in computer circles, and as it stands now csup isn't. > As with most things in Unix-land, there's more than one way to do > things, and every one will defend to the death their way of doing > things. :D This isn't a TMTOWTDI problem. It's a "your statement is factually incorrect and every time you make it you spawn a pointless thread about why it's factually incorrect" problem. Please adjust accordingly. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection