Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:55:37 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r228143 - in head: . share/mk tools/build/options Message-ID: <20111221045537.GA99900@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4EF14833.1090601@FreeBSD.org> References: <201111291946.pATJkHMs064094@svn.freebsd.org> <20111220171740.X1005@besplex.bde.org> <8CCE4DDE-B203-42FF-A2FA-9106403DE077@FreeBSD.org> <201112200908.57306.jhb@freebsd.org> <4EF13F23.9060601@FreeBSD.org> <CAK2BMK6nkipbapNMu2_sQ8PNYW1PsT78%2BsjpwM2uCOTQ2%2Bu8mw@mail.gmail.com> <4EF14833.1090601@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 06:45:07PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On 12/20/2011 18:29, Ben Kaduk wrote: > > 2011/12/20 Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>: > >> On 12/20/2011 06:08, John Baldwin wrote: > >>> The defaults for src.conf should be for the common case > >> > >> Agreed. The problem we seem to be missing here is that developers are > >> not even statistically significant in measuring "the common case." > > > > "The common case" of what, though? "People using src.conf", or > > "people rebuilding world", or just "people using FreeBSD"? > > The latter of course. The overwhelming majority of FreeBSD users will > never use profiled libs, and in fact don't even know what they are. It's > just useless space being taken up on every install. The defaults should > be sensible for our users. OK, Doug, we get it! You don't like profiled libraries. You don't use them, and by extension the 'common user' does not use them. -- Steve
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