Jase Thew wrote:
On 03/12/2011 09:21, Roman Kurakin wrote:
Doug Barton wrote:
[...]
The fact that we have so many people who are radically
change-averse, no
matter how rational the change; is a bug, not a feature.
This particular bug is complicated dramatically by the fact that the
majority view seems to lean heavily towards "If I use it, it must be
the
default and/or in the base" rather than seeing ports as part of the
overall operating SYSTEM.
You are right in general, except one small factor. We are talking about
bootstrap.
CVS is used by many as the one of the ways to get the sources to the
freshly
installed system to recompile to the last available source. It will
become inconvenient
to do it through the process of installing some ports for that.
Especially if corresponding
ports would require some other ports as dependences.
As has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread, CVS doesn't cover
csup, a utility in base which allows you to obtain the source
trivially for the scenario you provide above. (Explicity ignoring
cvsup which requires a port).
Does csup allows to checkout a random version from local cvs mirror?
So better to say csup(cvsup) does not cover cvs.
rik
Regards,
Jase.
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