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Date:      Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:35:45 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        cperciva@freebsd.org
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, gabor@freebsd.org, randi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r209787 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall
Message-ID:  <20100708.103545.87210464882418374.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C3591F5.2040401@freebsd.org>
References:  <201007080328.o683SP5k089410@svn.freebsd.org> <4C358891.5010502@FreeBSD.org> <4C3591F5.2040401@freebsd.org>

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In message: <4C3591F5.2040401@freebsd.org>
            Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> writes:
: On 07/08/10 01:13, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
: > Em 2010.07.08. 5:28, Randi Harper escreveu:
: >>    Remove the ability to upgrade via sysinstall. [...]
: >>
: >>    Approved by:    cperciva (mentor)
: >>    
: > Please revert. It has never been discussed in FreeBSD mailing lists,
: > while it is mandatory before such important changes.
: 
: This was discussed on the freebsd-sysinstall list last month:
: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sysinstall/2010-June/000012.html
: 
: My personal feeling was that since the level of interest in sysinstall from
: FreeBSD developers was generally low, this would be sufficient, so I told
: randi to go ahead and commit without also adding noise to -arch; but if you
: think the freebsd-sysinstall list is insufficient I'll get her to back this
: out pending discussion on -arch.

freebsd-sysinstall is unlikely to represent more than a tiny sliver of
the freebsd community.  Talking about ripping out major functionality
likely won't get a good sampling of the community there and will tend
to produce skewed results.

Warner



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