Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 05:05:26 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/picobsd/build picobsd Message-ID: <20040321050526.A22290@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20040321123727.GB51452@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 04:37:27AM -0800 References: <200403211046.i2LAkDHK049730@repoman.freebsd.org> <405D7232.30400@freebsd.org> <20040321042705.A21986@xorpc.icir.org> <20040321123727.GB51452@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 04:37:27AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 04:27:05AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>
> > The advantage of having picobsd and all stripped down variants
> > of FreeBSD in a port (perhaps with their own category)
>
> picobsd has had its own category for 2 years, and it has been sitting
> there untouched with only one port in it ever since. In fact I've
> been intending to remove the category soon and move that port back to
> net/. The usual rule of thumb for a new category is that it must
> contain 10 ports and have significant reason for a separate existence.
^^^
I would say that a sensible rule of thumb would include
is the second part only. Otherwise by the same reasoning you should
also kill arabic, hebrew, hungarian, plan9.
Anyways, once you populate the category with picobsd, minibsd,
nanobsd and friends, and the tinyware stuff, you quickly reach
the critical mass.
cheers
luigi
> Since picobsd seems to be essentially a dead project I'd need to be
> convinced that the category should remain.
>
> Kris
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