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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:52:22 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de>
To:        Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: propose: all arch move into a separate dir
Message-ID:  <20100305125222.GS58319@cicely7.cicely.de>
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, Mar 05, 2010 at 02:27:06PM +0300, Alex Keda 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?

And the fact that weighting the arguments always ends in the same
result - not make you think that this really shouldn't be done?
A calculation always ends in the same result until the variables changes.
So far this hasn't happen, so there is no need to recalculate/rethink
every now and then.

-- 
B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.



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