rcs
Daniel Nebdal
dnebdal at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 15:40:25 UTC 2013
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> wrote:
> On 10/7/13 9:49 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>
>> On 10/8/13 11:19 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2013-10-07, at 8:15 PM, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Maybe there was no development for 15 years. However, the 7364
>>>> lines in ChangeLog after 2010-02-04 suggests that there may
>>>> be few bugs to worry about.
>>
>>
>> I think the fact is that most direct users of RCS use it in a very simple
>> way, and
>> it works just fine for that. with no real need for any updates or any
>> change.
>
>
> With all due respect Julian, The more we discuss this more this really
> points to the problem that FreeBSD appears to be a challenge to install
> packages into such that a package moving out of base is such a big deal.
>
> Can we fix that instead?
>
> I mean, this change should really not be a big deal, but yet it is and this
> speaks to the core of FreeBSD utility.
>
> So again, is there a way to make it so adding RCS after install is not a big
> deal at all?
>
>
> --
> Alfred Perlstein
>
If they get the package repositories back up - which I assume will
happen before any official releases from 10 - it should just be "pkg
install rcs". As challenges go, that doesn't seem too bad?
That said, an online meta package builder *is* a nice idea, and seems
perfectly doable.
--
Daniel Nebdal
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