Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:35:10 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/zic private.h scheck.c zic.c src/us Message-ID: <XFMail.010716133510.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010716130130.C21211@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 16-Jul-01 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:01:16AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>> > zic is vendor code; please back this out.
>>
>> Why isn't it in src/contrib then?
>
> Many things that today would be in src/contrib were imported into
> {,gnu}/usr.?bin. GNU grep is another example of this. the `contrib'
> convention we use today doesn't date back to 2.0.
It's (realtively) small, so why not move it to contrib/ to make this more
obvious? src/gnu is already somewhat off in its own namespace and is already
treated as contrib stuff, however, how are committers supposed to know what
"magical" parts of src/usr.s?bin/ are actually 3rd party?
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