Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de> wrote:
> You can choose to not learn how "man -k Ev=" and ":t" in less work
> and yet use man(1) all day without harming anybody. That's your
> choice. But you cannot choose to not learn LOCALBASE and PREFIX
> and yet commit ports all day. You have to learn them even if you
> never use them personally. I'm sure people honestly try. And yet,
> according to the manual page, the outcome is that even after the
> review implied by the OK you need for a commit, significant parts
> of the ports tree appear to be incorrect. That doesn't sound like a
> simple thing to me.
That is correct.
Mandating all ports developers take an additional step of review for
something they don't use, will slow down all other work.
If a mandate is only desired/needed by 1% of people, a tremendous
inefficiency is being proposed by pushing that onto a small development
community bombarded by constant change.
OpenBSD cannot be everything to everyone. It takes a lot of hubris
to believe otherwise, and furthermore push a community in a direction.
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