From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 23 10:15:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA01970 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 10:15:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA01805 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 10:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id KAA13463; Thu, 23 May 1996 10:07:03 +0100 (BST) To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: src/gnu In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 May 1996 20:00:34 -0000." <779.832795234@critter.tfs.com> Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 10:07:03 +0100 Message-ID: <13461.832842423@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Poul-Henning Kamp wrote in message ID <779.832795234@critter.tfs.com>: > Apart from that, wouldn't it make more sense to use the "ports" paradigm > on them instead of checking in all the files ? In theory we should be > running pretty much footool-9.3.tar.gz with a few patches, so why not > speed up our CVS-tree by actually not checking in the thousands of files > but rather access them by reference via the tar file ? That would mean running up against the one flaw of the current ports system. I get my source code updates by CTM, and I am VERY happy with the fact that I just go to /usr/src and do what I want. I don't want to have to think ``do I have that tarball available, and if not, how bad is network congestion right now''. If something could be done about that, I'd be more than happy to see bsd.port.mk used in the main tree. Gary (making his point for those who, like him, still sit behind a dial-up modem) -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info