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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





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