svn commit: r228143 - in head: . share/mk tools/build/options

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Wed Dec 21 04:55:38 UTC 2011


On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 06:45:07PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 12/20/2011 18:29, Ben Kaduk wrote:
> > 2011/12/20 Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org>:
> >> On 12/20/2011 06:08, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>> The defaults for src.conf should be for the common case
> >>
> >> Agreed. The problem we seem to be missing here is that developers are
> >> not even statistically significant in measuring "the common case."
> > 
> > "The common case" of what, though?  "People using src.conf", or
> > "people rebuilding world", or just "people using FreeBSD"?
> 
> The latter of course. The overwhelming majority of FreeBSD users will
> never use profiled libs, and in fact don't even know what they are. It's
> just useless space being taken up on every install. The defaults should
> be sensible for our users.

OK, Doug, we get it! You don't like profiled libraries.
You don't use them, and by extension the 'common user'
does not use them.

-- 
Steve


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