Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 18:36:49 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.ORG> To: ryan@ryan.org, jdp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/7326 Message-ID: <199807210136.SAA05307@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: cvsup-bin not installed by default State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: jdp State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 20 18:25:07 PDT 1998 State-Changed-Why: There are several reasons why CVSup is not installed by default. Although it is useful to the small fraction of users who track -current or -stable, it has no value for the vast majority of the user base. The people whom it can benefit are precisely those who know how (or need to know how) to install add-on software. They don't need it to be installed by default. No other packages are installed by default. CVSup cannot be a part of the base system without also making Modula-3 a part of the base system. And Modula-3 is huge. There are many things of more general utility that would better be included than CVSup or Modula-3. (Perl5 comes to mind.) About the commented-out lines in /etc/crontab: Believe me, we do not want every CVSup user in each time zone to hit our servers at the same time each day. That is what would happen if we had such a line in crontab. I would go into more detail, but this blasted edit-pr utility is too dumb to allow me to use an editor to enter this text. :-( Anyway, thanks for the suggestions, but I don't think they'll find much support. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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