Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:30:30 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcpdump print-smb.c Message-ID: <20010124093030.V26076@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200101241510.KAA60891@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:10:42AM -0500 References: <200101240237.f0O2bta29372@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010123223418.R26076@fw.wintelcom.net> <200101241510.KAA60891@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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* Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> [010124 07:11] wrote: > <<On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:34:18 -0800, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> said: > > > Why not adopt a -ports like system for this where we can have a > > set of patchfiles applied to the dist and direct the output to the > > OBJDIR? > > Why don't we just accept that we have a revision control system for a > reason, and use it like it was intended to be used, and stop all this > BS whining about taking files off the vendor branch. Disk space is > cheap. If the conflicts cause a problem when the next version is > imported, get the original committer to fix it, or else drop the > change. I sort of figured that, it didn't make much sense to have something in the base system and be afraid to patch it. If it's that bad then we ought to ditch /contrib (except gcc :)) and put the rest in ports. I do agree with reducing doc/formatting changes if possible though. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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