Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:07:03 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archive pruning Message-ID: <00042421070302.09767@nomad.dataplex.net> In-Reply-To: <20000424185151.A36672@hub.freebsd.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004242011260.331-100000@picnic.mat.net> <20000424185151.A36672@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 08:15:45PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > I want to bring up a suggestion. I just want a little bit of argument on > > it ... and if you're violently opposed, just say so, that's fine. > > I'm "violently opposed". :-) > > > While folks do sometimes go hunting for hugely old materials in the > > tree, > > I've often traced files back to the begining of FreeBSD time (and then > continued in the CSRG SCCS tree). I've done this numerious times, > especially the contributed sources like GCC and GNU grep. > > > Do we really need 5 year old history? > > Yes. I don't disagree that we need to maintain the history. I do, however, question the policy that REQUIRES EVERYONE to maintain that much history. The CPU's use L1, L2, MM, HD cache hierarchies. The public libraries have a few months issues of a periodical in each branch library. They also have years of them in the main archives. FreeBSD developers know a better way to manage information??? :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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