Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg?

From: Mason Loring Bliss <mason_at_blisses.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:34:13 -0400
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 09:14:07AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:

> I agree that this would be useful, but it requires someone familiar with
> both systems to write.

Doing this stuff professionally, I could probably come up with equivalences
for a number of Unices. What would be a reasonable path to getting write
privs on the wiki?


> > I bet roughly no one who installs Subversion wants the FreeBSD bug report
> > headers baked in by default,
> 
> It's worth noting that the FreeBSD headers don't affect operation.

It mostly violates the principle of least surprise and is a cosmetic blemish.
I'd suspect that a lot of people use Subversion for their own or their
company development, and the default behaviour looks strange. It was
certainly surprising to me in any event.

A default of not having that turned on but an option to turn it on seems like
the most reasonable thing, given that the option is so closely tied to
FreeBSD development.


> It might be a good idea to move this thread to the -docs mailing list,

I will subscribe to that.

-- 
Mason Loring Bliss  ((   If I have not seen as far as others, it is because
 mason_at_blisses.org   ))   giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson
Received on Tue Oct 21 2014 - 16:34:23 UTC

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