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Date:      Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:30:44 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, yar@comp.chem.msu.su, eischen@vigrid.com, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen fts-compat.c fts-compat.h
Message-ID:  <200708271530.45290.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070827185741.GX87451@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0708251703550.19091@sea.ntplx.net> <20070827.085906.-332187760.imp@bsdimp.com> <20070827185741.GX87451@elvis.mu.org>

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On Monday 27 August 2007 02:57:41 pm Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Sorry for top posting, but...
> 
> I agree very strongly with Warner, in short, if possible, reducing the
> number of major gotchas of running current will make our developer
> and early adopters a lot happier.
> 
> It will help FreeBSD.
> 
> One of the things that turns me off to FreeBSD is the feeling that
> I get that certain people take some kind of pride in forcing users
> to go through dangerous and complex hoops in order to run current.
> 
> It shouldn't be so if the overhead of making it easier is so small.

It has zero to do with pride, but it does have a lot to do with allowing HEAD 
to be a branch for development as opposed to the stable branches that are 
more intended with deployment.  Those are quite different feature sets.

-- 
John Baldwin



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