Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:25:07 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r251886 - in head: contrib/apr contrib/apr-util contrib/serf contrib/sqlite3 contrib/subversion share/mk usr.bin usr.bin/svn usr.bin/svn/lib usr.bin/svn/lib/libapr usr.bin/svn/lib/libap... Message-ID: <3F17672C-F72E-46E1-A6E9-503371041FE6@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <51C08F58.2070308@freebsd.org> References: <201306180253.r5I2rj45053959@svn.freebsd.org> <51C08D7E.2000605@coosemans.org> <51C08F58.2070308@freebsd.org>
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On 19/06/2013, at 2:18, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> wrote: >> I don't find it unreasonable to ask developers to install the port. >> And for users it seems all they need is something like portsnap for = base. >> Portsnap already distributes ports svn so it shouldn't be too hard to >> adapt it for base. And the extra layer it adds is very convenient. = Apart >> from a bigger than usual update maybe, portsnap users never even = noticed >> it was switched from cvs to svn at some point. >=20 > Installing SVN from ports is very painful because of the huge = dependency > chain it carries, with the largest being Python and Perl IIRC. Perhaps there should be an svnlite port then, or svnstatic or similar. If an svnstatic port was installed as a package it would have no run = time dependencies, so not huge chains of stuff to install. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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