Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 20:19:46 -0400 From: Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com> To: Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com>, Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM) Message-ID: <68c1bed4-45ae-4a2b-8061-7c49abac67f7@digitaldaemon.com> In-Reply-To: <CAM5tNy7iMht9XiDP4VMHMFEhQWyP3u%2BksuQh3HaOcVRgS=GMeA@mail.gmail.com> References: <202409031532.483FW0If007252@critter.freebsd.dk> <908e7c45fbcea4634427b8d065bb2f20@Leidinger.net> <202409081302.488D2UvB069580@critter.freebsd.dk> <1aa702e57e63f927b687212820e97f8c@Leidinger.net> <CAFYkXjnOxJuY5sOkuNBU4c4t1XDa7dXdf1EXU=%2BTWGoxmPTdAA@mail.gmail.com> <CAM5tNy7iMht9XiDP4VMHMFEhQWyP3u%2BksuQh3HaOcVRgS=GMeA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/9/24 18:12, Rick Macklem wrote: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 2:27 PM Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 11:08 PM Alexander Leidinger >> <Alexander@leidinger.net> wrote: >>> Am 2024-09-08 15:02, schrieb Poul-Henning Kamp: >>>> -------- >>>> 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. >>> So you are promoting a Linux-distro style model? > Although I have no idea how many build from sources, I do think being > able to do so is one of the best features of FreeBSD. It is one of the great features. It is well structured. It is well documented. It is relatively easy to accomplish. > I would never want to try and build a Linux distro from sources. > I just built a Linux kernel and it took about 24hrs on the old hardware I have. > (Don't worry. I've only gone over to the "dark side" temporarily;-) Likewise... Once was enough... :-)
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