From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 1 13:45:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01A2337B400; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:45:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mrout1.yahoo.com (mrout1.yahoo.com [216.145.54.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5EE43E09; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:45:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from zoot.corp.yahoo.com (zoot.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.52.89]) by mrout1.yahoo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/y.out) with ESMTP id g61KjZA81259; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:45:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dougb@localhost) by zoot.corp.yahoo.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g61KjZUa024941; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:45:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:45:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: Terry Lambert Cc: Robert Watson , Giorgos Keramidas , Subject: Re: RFC: Fate of /usr/share/doc/smm/10.named In-Reply-To: <3D20A868.9FCAE4B8@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020701134446.E24940-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. :) -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message