Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)

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Alexander Leidinger writes:

I'm only going to answer two bits from your email:

> > The source tree became our citadel: "FreeBSD is src".  If something
> > was not in src, it was not FreeBSD.
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> We are way past that too, FreeBSD is src+ports+docs(+community).

Nope.

The only reason the Rust advocates need to bring this up is /precisely/
because that is not the case.

If it were, they would just have added ports.

> In your world. And in the world of some other people. But there are a 
> lot of worlds where this is not true. I have systems which are updated 
> from src, and use only packages which are build locally.

Beware of selection bias.

"Somebody who compiles from src" is almost the literal definition of "committer".

In terms of all the FreeBSD running hardware out there, not even
one percent of one percent of the machines compile from src.

(Hint: Consumer electronics and server farms running FreeBSD)

Poul-Henning

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