Re: CVS commit: src/share/mk

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

Jim Wise <jwise%draga.com@localhost> writes:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Alan Barrett wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Jim Wise wrote:
>>> Log Message:
>>> Now that we have real build system support for syspkgs, remove someone's
>>> half-implemented idea of building `syspkgs' (really a few giant blobs of the
>>> same granularity of the old sets) using install(1).
>>
>>I thought that the plan was to improve the ability to place syspkg tags
>>in the metalog, with a view to eventually removing the "lists" files.
>>Your commit seems to be in opposition to that goal.
>
> That's a worthy goal, but this was an insane way to try to get there.  
> This `solution' never supported placing different files from the same 
> source directory in different syspkgs

Actually, there are ways to do that. More to the point, NetBSD is not
the operating system where people go off and remove other people's
work without talking to them about it first.

Maybe we decide we'll agree with you in the end, but first you have to
undo what you've done and do this correctly -- with a public
discussion about the design instead of with a removal of the work.

Perry