Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:01:19 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Removing CVS from HEAD Message-ID: <201209121101.q8CB1JuQ025424@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:55:15 MDT." <1347378915.1137.61.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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Ian Lepore wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 17:44 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > A newcomer will ask the same sceptical questions of FreeBSD as of > > other UX's: "How much time must I lose on this UX before I'll > > get back to a Unix environment with tools I'm used to from other > > Unixes ?" > > > > I installed 3 different Linux last week, it was a reminder, > > how I saw them, as to how others trying FreeBSD may equally see ours, > > & decide to pass on, or stay. > > > Did each of those install cvs as part of the base system? I didn't look, (I was looking re. our ABI & acroread). > If not, then what is the point you're trying to make? Specificly: Removing CVS from src/ will be easily recoverable for commited FreeBSD users, but will degrade FreeBSD for some visitors from other Unixes & ex BSD people tentatively returning. Generaly: At the stage one tries new Unixes, if too many things are missing &/or too much trouble to learn what & how & where changed, & how to restore; Rather than lose a lot of time on docs, mail lists etc, it's easy to decide: "Probably much else changed or missing too, I'll lose too much time to revert it to a working Unix environment. Try next OS." Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text. Not: HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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