On 19/06/2013, at 2:18, Andre Oppermann <an...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> I don't find it unreasonable to ask developers to install the port. >> And for users it seems all they need is something like portsnap for base. >> Portsnap already distributes ports svn so it shouldn't be too hard to >> adapt it for base. And the extra layer it adds is very convenient. Apart >> from a bigger than usual update maybe, portsnap users never even noticed >> it was switched from cvs to svn at some point. > > Installing SVN from ports is very painful because of the huge dependency > chain it carries, with the largest being Python and Perl IIRC.
Perhaps there should be an svnlite port then, or svnstatic or similar. If an svnstatic port was installed as a package it would have no run time dependencies, so not huge chains of stuff to install. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
