Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 6 Jul 2011 14:13:35 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nicola Vitale <nivit@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/wbar Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/x11/wbar/files patch-Makefile patch-configure pkg-message.in
Message-ID:  <20110706141335.GA94807@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAEQKd7VTgdZsUpAGT78UGX5dJ%2BCc_Fhy7w21pWcNZJZb9kjaEw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201106301334.p5UDYYZ0059582@repoman.freebsd.org> <20110705164319.GA46561@FreeBSD.org> <CAEQKd7VTgdZsUpAGT78UGX5dJ%2BCc_Fhy7w21pWcNZJZb9kjaEw@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 02:56:20PM +0200, Nicola Vitale wrote:
> Moreover, in my opinion, there are not advantages in terms of
> performance, and the package of pidof is about 4293 bytes after all.

Well, it's not really about size.  Infrastructure costs get higher (extra
dependency to track, upgrade, etc.) which in turn eats time.  Size of the
packages/distfiles does not really matter these days.

./danfe



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20110706141335.GA94807>