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Date:      Mon, 3 Oct 2011 13:54:47 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r225937 - in head: . release release/amd64 release/i386 release/ia64 release/pc98 release/powerpc release/scripts release/sparc64 usr.sbin usr.sbin/sysinstall
Message-ID:  <CDBA04EF-69EE-47F2-A1FC-D00428AE1650@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E8A209E.8010407@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201110031513.p93FD9ev015593@svn.freebsd.org> <4E8A209E.8010407@FreeBSD.org>

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On Oct 3, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 10/03/2011 08:13, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>> Author: nwhitehorn
>> Date: Mon Oct  3 15:13:09 2011
>> New Revision: 225937
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225937
>>=20
>> Log:
>>  Farewall, sysinstall! You served us well for many years, but 10.0 is =
one
>>  digit beyond your time.
>=20
> sysinstall had (at least) 2 primary purposes, installation, and
> post-install system configuration. The new installer is a good step
> towards the first goal, but we currently have nothing to fulfill the
> second role. For that reason I think this step is premature.
>=20
> One could also make the case that this is exactly the kind of =
disruptive
> change that the release engineer asked us not to do until the release =
is
> done, but I'll leave that to them to deal with. :)

FWIW, I thought timeline between deprecation and deletion was at least 2 =
releases too..
-Garrett=



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