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Re: Importing tmux into base



On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 07:22:51AM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> 
> No, I didn't mean this - I meant what you said, 'converting other stuff to
> use BSD Makefiles'.  The 'mini-pkgsrc' thing which you've mis-interpreted
> is to avoid having to import the entire source code for all these third
> party utilities into CVS (which has been an issue for the minimalists in
> the past).  It is only used to fetch the distfiles, ensure they are
> correct, then apply any patches we would normally have applied directly to
> CVS to fix various things in the package.

What minimalists?  When?  Where?  Going through such gyrations to avoid
using a revision control system just seems nutty to me.

Thor


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