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Date:      Tue, 1 May 2007 10:48:28 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall main.c
Message-ID:  <20070501064828.GA3836@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20070501013957.GX13868@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <200704301516.l3UFGJbu019162@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070430180043.GK13868@elvis.mu.org> <20070430181824.GA83415@nagual.pp.ru> <20070430225717.GA7008@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20070501000242.GA19510@nagual.pp.ru> <20070501002817.GA887@nagual.pp.ru> <463690FE.9000209@inse.ru> <20070501010709.GA1304@nagual.pp.ru> <20070501013957.GX13868@elvis.mu.org>

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On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:39:57PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Using the strategy "commit to -current then suffer the fallout"
> is pretty bogus.

The only possible. Nobody can run all ports at once. Kris already promise 
all ports build results with those changes in, lets see.

Speaking about you - you suffer of what? Still no single report from your 
side, just talks.

> I don't understand why some form of compatibility or #define wasn't
> thought out before hand.

It could be possible, along with some env. variables providing old 
(or perhaps new) behaviour and so on, but depends on what whole picture 
is.

> This stands out like "fixing select" to record time elapsed into
> the timevals, POSIX'ly correct, but incorrect for FreeBSD, without
> more thought.

Apples and oranges. select is BSD own function unlike putenv which is not 
BSD own and initially adopted without too much care.

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