Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:42:58 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Verigakis <verigak@algol.vtrip-ltd.com> To: Zvezdan Petkovic <zvezdan@CS.WM.EDU> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0201132228590.16778-100000@algol.vtrip-ltd.com> In-Reply-To: <20020112223425.A901@dali.cs.wm.edu>
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:28:00PM +0100, Massimiliano Stucchi wrote: > > Anyway, if not portupgrade, why not include cvsup in the base system, as I > > think we're talking about a really necessary utility ? > > > > Allow me to disagree. CVS is absolutely necessary. CVSup is not. It's > merely a convenience. One can do source and port updates using cvs only. So you say that an OS should not provide conveniences to it's users? If you look at /usr/bin there are a lot of tools that are merely a convenience. How many times have you used apply, biff, col, grog or jot? (I just picked 5) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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