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 NebdalReceived on Tue Oct 08 2013 - 13:40:25 UTC
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