Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 07:03:21 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving Things [was Re: List of things to move from main tree] Message-ID: <200102171504.f1HF4DY38770@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Feb 2001 09:26:57 EST." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010217091721.56503L-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010217091721.56503L-100000@fledge.watson.org >, Robe rt Watson writes: [many good comments removed] > An observation that Jordan and others have made is that you can > distinguish source structure and install-time modularity issues, meaning > that it's possible to imagine having the tight integration of sendmail and > bind into the source tree, and related local patches and reproduceable > source integration / auditing, while maintaing packages-like install-time > choices and bundling. A lot of the reasons that people argue for removing > code from the tree relate to the desire for high install-time modularity, > and a lot of the reasons people argue for inclusion in the source tree are > tight source integration, reproduceability, and configuration merging and > management. We can have both you know. :-) You've hit the nail right on the head. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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