From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 20:25:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B64D1065674 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:25:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146DC8FC0C for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:25:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19643 invoked by uid 399); 10 Jun 2010 20:25:55 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 10 Jun 2010 20:25:55 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C114A52.2060405@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:25:54 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer References: <201006101346.59824.jhb@freebsd.org> <4C112C6C.50000@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <4C112C6C.50000@elischer.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: etcupdate tool in base? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:25:56 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 06/10/10 11:18, Julian Elischer wrote: | It does bring up the question (yet again) if we shouldn't | have something that is between base and ports.. | the keep base from bloating too much bit to still indicate | that they are supported. Julian, This statement perpetuates the idea that somehow anything in ports is "lesser" than things that are in src, which frankly I'm way past being sick of. The ports tree is part of FreeBSD, period. If you don't believe me, try installing just the base without installing any ports, and then see how much work you're able to get done. Doug - -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJMEUpSAAoJEFzGhvEaGryE7DMIALLAQ3oituvWpboIVi3kqkU/ G4jH4tmasyOaWXqP5qH/xtcJDFfbNEKORlDrJem8q0XKluXaw8jZKW+8dgsdBAqJ IcGVfIOWDXID4ZdMAU1wvLiqB3Ozkt0RnOnrgR+lAbstTZlX886HUpPFU0AyNJj3 EQKOIwk2SVAa5Y6lF+NPf/+M56RSnzezgU2QVGYdbnjOLqsl91SEYgBAYQN50sqi meIWJeL3iGuZ0krkkwQ3/zFlKsq5o/x76pClv+yqevVdo/EIRvaG0AfcGEPwXMdO RdN1sMkl8E+2IVpr2ruIwjN8JtAqzkC/6EhOZcvsXheeoKQLgwR4D0O58uvEUPs= =XzyJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----