From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 11 05:35:46 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 B443A106564A for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:35:46 +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 EB0748FC18 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 13555 invoked by uid 399); 11 Jun 2010 05:35:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.145?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 11 Jun 2010 05:35:44 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C11CB2C.1090603@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:35:40 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer References: <201006101346.59824.jhb@freebsd.org> <4C112C6C.50000@elischer.org> <4C114A52.2060405@FreeBSD.org> <4C118311.4000807@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <4C118311.4000807@elischer.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:35:46 -0000 On 6/10/2010 5:28 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > code in the base tree gets fixed by people making sweeping changes > but things from ports often do not. Code will either be maintained well, or it will not. I've seen plenty of stuff in src break, and the src build is often broken by under-tested changes (even in -stable branches). As I said in my original post, your attitude is anachronistic, and needs to change. It's not ok for people to make random sweeping src changes, even in -current, that break things in ports. 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/