From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 12 22:29:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 654E537C221; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 22:29:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 01:29:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: Marius Bendiksen Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why don't section 4 pages live with their drivers? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > > (because it's been deprecated after repo-copy); I guess that's a bit > > of a selfish thing, but I don't really think anyone around here _wants_ > > the repository to be this big. > > If this is really that much of a problem, why not pay Eivind to finish > OVCS in record time? That, IIRC, kicks Gnats, CVS et al out the window > straight off. Well, let me put it this way. Does it seem like a problem when we have nowadays a huge amount of people who would add over a megabyte to the repository and consider it a drop in the bucket, almost nothing? This opinion that trying not to grow the repository will make it pretty hard, IMHO, to keep the repository to a relatively reasonable size. As for OVCS, that would be awesome; I don't recall Eivind having made the offer to work on it full-time if paid, but if he did and BSDi would fund it, it would result in a situation that was better for BSDi, FreeBSD, Eivind (hopefully he'd want to work on it full time, right? :), and the world at large (being free software). If he'd do contract work on OVCS, I see a great oppurtunity here. As for the manpages in section 4 themselves, I like them where they are now. I like the fact that all of the man4 pages are sitting in one directory in the tree since they're also installed into one directory in a world install. Both ways have advantages, but I don't feel that you're going to end up with anything but a real 50/50 split on this, and I don't believe that the costs outweigh benefits. I won't be sour grapes if it ends up that more people would want them sitting with the drivers, but think about it another way. Drivers aren't all compartmentalized now, though many are. There would have to be a Makefile which contained a list of all manpages/directories/etc. (technically, not hard but very annoying), and you'd have various manpages sitting around outside of src/sys/dev in various busdep and machdep directories. > Marius -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message