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

Ben Woods woodsb02 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 9 23:13:40 UTC 2017


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).
>
> ./danfe
>

Fair enough. I have reverted r447625 (removing sysutils/chvt) in r447658.

Regards,
Ben


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