cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 geom.4

David Schultz das at FreeBSD.ORG
Thu Apr 7 16:45:41 PDT 2005


On Fri, Apr 08, 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >For the author of GEOM, the breakage should be easy to fix.  Why
> >not just fix it in the same way that you fixed fdisk over two
> >years ago?
> 
> Because I am approaching one commit every 8 hours of the last
> calendar year, and I have quite frankly enough to do as it is.
> 
> Sysinstall, fdisk, bsdlabel and boot0cfg are all userland programs
> which should be well inside the envelope of pretty much anybody
[...]

Great, so we're both trying to get each other to do it.
Of course, I don't have loads of free time either or I
would have slept more than 3 hours last night.  Sigh.

> I'm sure that if it is important some developers will jump in and
> make it better.

This sort of attitude is related to a complaint of a number of
ports developers and others, namely, that some people refuse to
fix the things that they break.


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