From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 13 12:45: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from algol.vtrip-ltd.com (algol.vtrip-ltd.com [139.91.200.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05F5037B417 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:44:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from verigak (helo=localhost) by algol.vtrip-ltd.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16PrT0-0004OH-00; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:42:58 +0200 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:42:58 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Verigakis To: Zvezdan Petkovic Cc: Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility In-Reply-To: <20020112223425.A901@dali.cs.wm.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:28:00PM +0100, Massimiliano Stucchi wrote: > > Anyway, if not portupgrade, why not include cvsup in the base system, as I > > think we're talking about a really necessary utility ? > > > > Allow me to disagree. CVS is absolutely necessary. CVSup is not. It's > merely a convenience. One can do source and port updates using cvs only. So you say that an OS should not provide conveniences to it's users? If you look at /usr/bin there are a lot of tools that are merely a convenience. How many times have you used apply, biff, col, grog or jot? (I just picked 5) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message