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Date:      Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:31:38 +0000
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org>
To:        Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: propose: all arch move into a separate dir
Message-ID:  <4d855238cd6ee760010466442711f92c@mail.rabson.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B90EA8A.3090306@lissyara.su>
References:  <17035.1267786772@critter.freebsd.dk>	<4B90E6B3.9070906@lissyara.su> <e3e25b34d9476c02d80919fe5d09a5c3@mail.rabson.org> <4B90EA8A.3090306@lissyara.su>

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On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:27:06 +0300, Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su> wrote:
> On 05.03.2010 14:16, Doug Rabson wrote:
>> On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:10:43 +0300, Alex Keda<admin@lissyara.su> 
wrote:
>>    
>>> On 05.03.2010 13:59, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>>      
>>>> In message<4B90E171.2040808@lissyara.su>, Alex Keda writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>> then can a more correct name of the project or ClosedBSD or
>>>>>          
>> ManagedBSD?
>>    
>>>>> =)
>>>>> or something abstract?
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>> You are free to use any other operating system of your choice, if you
>>>> are not happy with FreeBSD.
>>>>
>>>> Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
>>>>
>>>>        
>>> I'm not going anywhere, not even hope for it =)
>>> I'm trying to make FreeBSD a better, more logical.
>>> Maybe that's not very successful, but judging by the number of
>>> responses, it hurt many, and made to think even more people.
>>>      
>> I think you misunderstand. Some of us old-timers have been having this
>> discussion repeatedly for well over ten years. It always ends up the
same
>> way - a re-org might make the source tree marginally prettier but the
>> consequences for long-term maintenance and supporting downstream
>> contributors outweigh any possible benefit. Having the same
conversation
>> every two years with the same outcome gets annoying.
>>    
> And the fact that this issue was raised with enviable regularity - not 
> make you think that it really needs to be done?

Read what I wrote. Consequences outweigh benefits so no. On the other
hand, if you are just trolling, please try somewhere else.




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