Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 21:23:03 +0600 From: Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> To: Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CVS removal from the base Message-ID: <CADe0-4mXG4pE7aw_8drH8BPS98spPceHeghwYfcKgyAfEjMGng@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ED9EA27.8090206@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>
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Rik, On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru> wrote: >> The fact that we have so many people who are radically change-averse, no >> matter how rational the change; is a bug, not a feature. >> >> This particular bug is complicated dramatically by the fact that the >> majority view seems to lean heavily towards "If I use it, it must be the >> default and/or in the base" rather than seeing ports as part of the >> overall operating SYSTEM. >> > > You are right in general, except one small factor. We are talking about > bootstrap. > CVS is used by many as the one of the ways to get the sources to the freshly > installed system to recompile to the last available source. It will become > inconvenient > to do it through the process of installing some ports for that. Especially > if corresponding > ports would require some other ports as dependences. Do you really use CVS and not cvsup/csup? CVS != csup. Max
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