Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:00:08 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS removal from the base Message-ID: <201112141300.pBED08ov002173@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:29:48 PST." <4EE8344C.2070509@freebsd.org>
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From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> > >> Having things in ports doesn't make them less available. :) >From "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> > > It didn't used to. It risks it now, since in last months, some > > ports/ have been targeted by a few rogue commiters purging, who > > want to toss ports out from one release to another without warning > > of a DEPRECATED= in previous release Makefiles. From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> > which brings up teh possibility of 1st class ports.. which are kept > more as part of the system.. > (sorry for sounding like a broken record..) Interesting idea, to bounce the idea around a bit: It would extend the spectrum to /usr/src/ ..Most.. /usr/src/ contrib 1st class ports ... in src or ports or elsewhere ? ... (if elsewhere, work to reconfig mirrors & to. doc new struct later) /usr/ports currently 22906 An empty current ports tree takes 485 M (& a lot of inodes which occasionaly trips people). A current src tree takes 705 M Ports has lots of commiters Src has less & partly different commiters & stricter watched & more release aligned. Maybe sometime we will see a project arise that will be a replacement ports/ for more than one BSD, perhaps even extending to Linux, (to avoid reinventing of the wheel that must go on with ports skeletal structs for each OS) ( maybe with an RFC for a port/ skeleton struct ? If so, that may have ramifications on bits of src moved to ports. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. EU tax to kill London Vetoed http://berklix.com/~jhs/blog/2011_12_11
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