From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 11:32:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30CC51065670 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:32:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dfr@rabson.org) Received: from itchy.rabson.org (router.rabson.org [80.177.232.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67638FC1F for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:32:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by itchy.rabson.org (Postfix, from userid 80) id 189E35C90; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:31:38 +0000 (GMT) To: Alex Keda MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:31:38 +0000 From: Doug Rabson In-Reply-To: <4B90EA8A.3090306@lissyara.su> References: <17035.1267786772@critter.freebsd.dk> <4B90E6B3.9070906@lissyara.su> <4B90EA8A.3090306@lissyara.su> Message-ID: <4d855238cd6ee760010466442711f92c@mail.rabson.org> X-Sender: dfr@rabson.org User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: propose: all arch move into a separate dir 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, 05 Mar 2010 11:32:09 -0000 On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:27:06 +0300, Alex Keda wrote: > On 05.03.2010 14:16, Doug Rabson wrote: >> On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:10:43 +0300, Alex Keda 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.