Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/pwait

[Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>]

Am 03.03.15 um 21:22 schrieb Greg Troxel:
> 
> Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost> writes:
> 
>> Am 03.03.15 um 14:35 schrieb Greg Troxel:
>>> 
>>> christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) writes:
>>> 
>>>> If we want to make every single change to go through 
>>>> tech-userlevel, we should institute a rule to do so. To my 
>>>> knowledge we don't have yet such a rule. We already have the
>>>> rest of the p* programs which originated in Solaris, we were
>>>> missing this one, so it made sense to me to add it.
>>> 
>>> We do sort of have a rule, which is that significant changes
>>> need discussion.  I would say adding programs to base always
>>> counts. Other than that, it's trickier, but if there's a
>>> reasonable likelihood of a valid objection, I'd say it's over
>>> the line into signficant/discuss.
>> 
>> Adding new stuff bears a low risk of breaking existing stuff, so
>> I think it does not need discussion all the time.
> 
> I meant that adding to base was discuss-worthy because there's a
> "bloat or necessary" question, not because of risk of breakage.

Sure.  So how much "bloat" is pwait?  Is it a huge piece of software
or a small utility?  I think that matters a bit.