svn commit: r447625 - in head/sysutils: . chvt chvt/files

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Thu Aug 10 06:42:10 UTC 2017


On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 07:13:38AM +0800, Ben Woods wrote:
> On 10 August 2017 at 00:07, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > I thought that generally we try not to duplicate functionality that is
> > available in the base with the ports, unless the the port's implementation
> > is sufficiently different (e.g. GNU tools) or serves as another ports'
> > dependency which cannot be easily patched to use the base counterpart.
> >
> > Every port takes time to fetch/build/package, and it does hurt in a way:
> > it increases maintenance burden (even if it's relatively minor in this
> > particular case).
> 
> Fair enough. I have reverted r447625 (removing sysutils/chvt) in r447658.

Thanks Ben, appreciated.

./danfe


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