Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 07:13:38 +0800 From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>, Ben Woods <woodsb02@freebsd.org>, "ports-committers@FreeBSD.org" <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r447625 - in head/sysutils: . chvt chvt/files Message-ID: <CAOc73CDzVgao8Hok_6PY6n6_du3rNmTLJLhCSN3x2O3s09UK7g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10 August 2017 at 00:07, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: > I thought that generally we try not to duplicate functionality that is > available in the base with the ports, unless the the port's implementation > is sufficiently different (e.g. GNU tools) or serves as another ports' > dependency which cannot be easily patched to use the base counterpart. > > Every port takes time to fetch/build/package, and it does hurt in a way: > it increases maintenance burden (even if it's relatively minor in this > particular case). > > ./danfe > Fair enough. I have reverted r447625 (removing sysutils/chvt) in r447658. Regards, Ben
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