[RFC] Add usr/ports to BSD.usr.mtree

2005-07-28 Thread Xin LI
Dear folks, It seems that /usr/ports is not part of our BSD.usr.mtree tree. Is there any reason for this? I'm willing to add it to the mtree if nobody objects. Thanks for your comments! Cheers, -- Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ See complete headers for GPG key and other information. pgpx

Re: [RFC] Add usr/ports to BSD.usr.mtree

2005-07-28 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:52:34PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > It seems that /usr/ports is not part of our BSD.usr.mtree tree. Is > there any reason for this? I'm willing to add it to the mtree if > nobody objects. (a) Not everybody uses third party build infrastructures. (b) Not everybody uses ports

Re: [RFC] Add usr/ports to BSD.usr.mtree

2005-07-28 Thread Xin LI
Hi, Joerg, On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 06:07:32PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:52:34PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > > It seems that /usr/ports is not part of our BSD.usr.mtree tree. Is > > there any reason for this? I'm willing to add it to the mtree if > > nobody objects.

Re: [RFC] Add usr/ports to BSD.usr.mtree

2005-07-28 Thread Xin LI
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:24:44PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > Thanks for sharing your viewpoints. Mine is a bit different: > - Not everyone wants to build the system, especially the large companies >that utilize some sort of binary update mechainsm. Oops, I mean /usr/obj here. Cheers, -- Xin L

Re: [RFC] Add usr/ports to BSD.usr.mtree

2005-07-29 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:24:44PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > My points to have /usr/ports in the mtree is for convience that users > creating a jail that is intended to mount the ports tree from the host > system, without having to create their own in every instances. What > do you think about this?

Re: [RFC] Add usr/ports to BSD.usr.mtree

2005-07-29 Thread Xin LI
Hi, Joerg, On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 04:43:49PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:24:44PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > > My points to have /usr/ports in the mtree is for convience that users > > creating a jail that is intended to mount the ports tree from the host > > system,