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Re: CVS commit: src/external/gpl3



On 26.03.2020 15:52, Greg Troxel wrote:
> What is the real problem here?  I think it's great that NetBSD-specific
> fixes are being upstreamed, and that we are reducing gratuitous changes
> from upstream.  But upstream's position that the default tmp should be
> /var/tmp is at odds with our and traditional norms, and really seems to
> just not make sense.  (Perhaps it does make sense on typical Linux, and
> perhaps upstream should have OS-specific tmp defaults.)   Adding
> complexity to NetBSD config files and users for the sake of reducing a
> diff seems like a bad tradeoff.

Generally speaking divergence with upstream is a problem and we lost
these changes anyway in pkgsrc and every standalone GNU toolchain copy.

Finding a creative way to make this at least tunable is challenging with
the GCC people.

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