Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 19:07:47 +0100 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS removal from the base Message-ID: <CADGWnjWSH1DUmx0OX8oh46ea7-XHc4EGNzbciogBk4KwJnsPsg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EDBB56B.9020308@inse.ru> References: <CADe0-4kEJsj5pe6h4ZVPGg-hFEjE7oC4Ya8VO7sdW9W3WZiajg@mail.gmail.com> <20111202115446.GB25963@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <CADe0-4=8z%2BpFAem83xMkYXYZCgCt9r_tX64he5Vx95OkAJqtFQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmonQQ-yHrDox35gpuaXXYV5j%2BUXOJH5jr93m3j=uBgbkWA@mail.gmail.com> <4ED974A2.7080606@FreeBSD.org> <4ED9EA27.8090206@inse.ru> <4EDABDE8.9060406@FreeBSD.org> <4EDB8BB5.50607@borderworlds.dk> <4EDBB56B.9020308@inse.ru>
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On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru> wrote: > Christian Laursen wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> I use CVS myself from time to time, but I see no need for it to be in base >> for that reason. > > By the way, since there is no way to count +/- I guess the rule "do not > brake that is working > or provide a way to do the same" should work. If there is a number of users > of smth it should > not be broken. csup/cvsup does not provide the same. Actually, a whole lot of stuff that was still perfectly useable has been deprecated over the years. I'm thinking of net/freebsd-uucp for example. Instead of moving all this functionality into ports, and therefore into a rather unstable moving target (how sure are we that the corresponding distfiles will stay available as long as /usr/src?), I'd have preferred that it be moved into a dedicated part of the base tree, e.g. /usr/old (or /usr/deprecated, or /usr/historic, /usr/vintage, whatever). Therefore, we could simply add /usr/old/bin to PATH, and link against /usr/old/lib, use headers from /usr/old/include, have the source in /usr/old/src, and so on. If you don't want to build the system with that, just add a knob in /usr/src.conf to exclude /usr/old. That's the kind of stable system I'd wish for FreeBSD instead of the current model or slowly eroding functionality and mysteriously disappearing utilities _and_ source code. > rik -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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