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Date:      Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:34:56 +0200
From:      Claude Buisson <clbuisson@orange.fr>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Michael Ross <gmx@ross.cx>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE snapshots
Message-ID:  <50761430.8090306@orange.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20121011000901.GK10429@glenbarber.us>
References:  <50717D35.7040106@affle.com> <1349727367645-5750424.post@n5.nabble.com> <50754E24.4040903@orange.fr> <1349873186577-5750838.post@n5.nabble.com> <5075AA96.6050101@orange.fr> <CAN6yY1v0CHXz-FE=1OZmTvY4T5SmSX5zLvrzL1PzWGMeLSmTHg@mail.gmail.com> <op.wlzmeqzkg7njmm@michael-think> <20121011000901.GK10429@glenbarber.us>

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On 10/11/2012 02:09, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 02:02:40AM +0200, Michael Ross wrote:
>>>> - I had to install a complete VCS I have no (other) need of,
>>>
>>> Unfortunate, but not hugely significant (Just a bit of  disk space).
>>
>> I think it is rather significant:
>>
>
> FWIW, you can compile the svn binary elsewhere, statically linked, and
> save the dependency problem by copying the resulting binary around.
>

Lucky people who have an "elsewhere".

And the static binary is as much bloated than the dynamic ones.

Compare it with this poor csup, which gave great services for a small price.

> I do this on many machines, and even have a static svn binary in
> /root/bin as a fallback in case things blow up badly and I cannot access
> /usr/local.
>
> (I also do the same thing with the pkgng pkg-static binary...)
>
> Glen
>

Claude Buisson



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