From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 19:13:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6531065680 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:13:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (lefty.soaustin.net [66.135.55.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FBA38FC08 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id CC3178C07D; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:13:11 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:13:11 -0600 From: Mark Linimon To: paradox Message-ID: <20100304191311.GE3171@lonesome.com> References: <401095.35021.qm@web59107.mail.re1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <401095.35021.qm@web59107.mail.re1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: propose: all arch move into a separate dir X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:13:12 -0000 There are two chief problems with a large-scale reorg of our src tree: - There are many companies who use FreeBSD as part of their business. In the case of ISPs or companies who use FreeBSD as a base of their products, this would make it much harder for them to synchronize their local changes with the master repository as changes occur. - We have a large number of existing Problem Reports containing patches against our src tree. These patches would be in the same situation. These are the reasons we've avoided doing so in the past, no matter how much 'cleaner' things might wind up being. mcl