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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:45:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>, <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: RFC: Fate of /usr/share/doc/smm/10.named
Message-ID:  <20020701134446.E24940-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D20A868.9FCAE4B8@mindspring.com>

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On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Doug Barton wrote:
> > I agree with this reasoning, and also with keeping them around
> > "somewhere." The BOG is a particularly good candidate for pruning since
> > it's still available from the vendor.
>
> Things that are brought in on vendor branches should be identical
> to the contents of packages distributed by the vendors themselves.

This is already not true because we delete a lot of other code that we
don't use, like ports for other OS'.

> Any time you move away from what the vendor supplied, you increase
> the number of extra delatas you have to think about the next time
> there is a vendor release, and you go to import it.

That's why I updated FREEBSD-Xlist. :)


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