Re: devel/git and devel/git-base are confusing

[David Holland <dholland-pkgusers%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 03:58:32PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
 > git is so widely known software that virtually every person using pkgsrc
 > knows what it is without consulting DESCR. DESCR is good for learning
 > some new piece of software.

So is e.g. Python and if you don't read the directions, you don't get
what you want.

 > The bug is to push into mouth of users gitk, when they ask pkgin to
 > install git.

I find it boggling that anyone actually cares this much. Git already
pulls in a ton of stuff even if you only install git-base.

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost