From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 16 13:35:16 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52AF637B401; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:35:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.4/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6GKZ2v73280; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:35:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010716130130.C21211@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:35:10 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/zic private.h scheck.c zic.c src/us Cc: Dima Dorfman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Wollman Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Jul-01 David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:01:16AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: >> > zic is vendor code; please back this out. >> >> Why isn't it in src/contrib then? > > Many things that today would be in src/contrib were imported into > {,gnu}/usr.?bin. GNU grep is another example of this. the `contrib' > convention we use today doesn't date back to 2.0. It's (realtively) small, so why not move it to contrib/ to make this more obvious? src/gnu is already somewhat off in its own namespace and is already treated as contrib stuff, however, how are committers supposed to know what "magical" parts of src/usr.s?bin/ are actually 3rd party? -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message