Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 18:37:43 +0000 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: "ctm-users@freebsd.org" <ctm-users@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Move ctm to ports? Message-ID: <CADLo83_p4NZ2_aDxK_i5ET46Yy2jJQcPyQJyi9ZUSC7z_On4VA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201112051426.pB5EQnOH038029@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <4EDC5A5F.4080707@inse.ru> <201112051426.pB5EQnOH038029@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On 5 December 2011 14:26, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Roman Kurakin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>> > How would people feel about removing ctm and mkctm from the base
>> > system, and making it into a port?
>> Please check the discussion about CVS on current@. The problem with
>> ports that they are detached from the
>> base and they are not always out of the box.
>
> ...
>
>> The rest could be addon-ports. CTM from my
>> point of view is the bootstrapping tool and it
>> should not be removed from the base.
>
> Yup !
>
>> > What would the disadvantages be?
>
> One disadvantage of CTM moving from src/ to ports/:
> There's a few rogue commiters indulging personal whims in ports/
>
> ( PS Stephen is also a ports@ committer, but I do Not mean him.
> If keeping ctm in src/ means Stephen would need his commit bit
> extended from ports/ to also include src/ too, then good to extend it).
>
> The vast majority of commiters in ports are good, but a few
> deserve removing. A few have been vandalising ports/, tossing
> good stuff in the attic, just because { they personaly dont use it, &
> some send-pr alleged a bug not critical to all, & tossing a port
> into the Atiic was their easy way of decrementing the send-pr
> count }, despite it impacted without warning, FreeBSD ports/ users
> who move between releases without reading ports@ traffic.
>
CTM is maintained actively and doesn't have any security issues, so
there's no danger of that.
Chris
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