Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 06:42:09 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>, Ben Woods <woodsb02@freebsd.org>, "ports-committers@FreeBSD.org" <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r447625 - in head/sysutils: . chvt chvt/files Message-ID: <20170810064209.GA64908@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAOc73CDzVgao8Hok_6PY6n6_du3rNmTLJLhCSN3x2O3s09UK7g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOc73CDzVgao8Hok_6PY6n6_du3rNmTLJLhCSN3x2O3s09UK7g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 07:13:38AM +0800, Ben Woods wrote: > On 10 August 2017 at 00:07, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: > > I thought that generally we try not to duplicate functionality that is > > available in the base with the ports, unless the the port's implementation > > is sufficiently different (e.g. GNU tools) or serves as another ports' > > dependency which cannot be easily patched to use the base counterpart. > > > > Every port takes time to fetch/build/package, and it does hurt in a way: > > it increases maintenance burden (even if it's relatively minor in this > > particular case). > > Fair enough. I have reverted r447625 (removing sysutils/chvt) in r447658. Thanks Ben, appreciated. ./danfe
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