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[Alfred Perlstein]

* Doug Barton <DougB at FreeBSD.org> [040812 09:06] wrote:
> 
> I find this line of reasoning very interesting in light of the 
> disagreement I'm currently having with eik about repo copying a port I'm 
> working on. On the one hand, you and he are arguing that it's perfectly 
> ok to break POLA in -stable because the new stuff is better, and the old 
> stuff sucked anyway. On the other hand, eik and one other member of the 
> portmgr team are arguing that an old port's revision history is so 
> incredibly valuable that it must be preserved, even though it has 
> little relevance to the new port. I'd find this funny if it weren't so 
> sad.

It's upsetting that the two concerns are:

1) Breaking POLA because somehow someone on the team knows what's
better for users, somehow this is OK.

2) Preserving repo history, that the user couldn't give two shits
about.

I would have made another port, at least for a couple of months.

I don't care about the history, as long as you're not taking away
a widely used tool (no matter how much it "sucks") and forcing
people to upgrade.

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- Alfred Perlstein
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