Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

["Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>]

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 19:07 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> I'd like to vote against feeding up p9p with more things,
> instead split it up into smaller pieces. Modern distros tend
> to have quite convenient package management systems ;-p

I really fail to see what is your problem here. There's no
rule that source code repository has to correspond 1-1
to the binary package. In fact, it is quite common
to use a single repository for producing a number of
different binary packages.

If you are a binary package maintainer it is your responsibility
to package the software in such a way that it ends up being of the
most benefit for potential users. One of the biggest mistake
an open source distro maintainer could make is to assume
that his role is trivial. It is not.

As a software developer, not a user, I do have a different
set of constraints to optimize for. I would prefer a single
source repository for plan9port under a reasonable DSCM
so that I don't have to mix and match bits and pieces by
hand.

Thanks,
Roman.