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Date:      Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:37:40 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org,  dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: git: 23e69b54973f - main - pkgbase: set origin for each packages as base/FreeBSD-*
Message-ID:  <86ldm5c64b.fsf@ltc.des.dev>
In-Reply-To: <202509231314.58NDE7Ir042112@gitrepo.freebsd.org> (Baptiste Daroussin's message of "Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:14:07 GMT")
References:  <202509231314.58NDE7Ir042112@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>     pkgbase: set origin for each packages as base/FreeBSD-*
>=20=20=20=20=20
>     MFC After:              3 day
>     Reviewed by:            ivy
>     Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52689

I'm not convinced this was a good idea.  Having the same origin made it
trivial to identify base packages in filter expressions ('%o =3D base').
I understand that some people think package origins should be unique and
complained loudly on the mailing lists, but subpackages already share
the same origin.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@FreeBSD.org



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