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

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, nia wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 10:32:34AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > I don't understand what problem nia@ is trying to solve, really, becuase
> >
> > > > users expect the git package to just contain the command line tools
> > > >  and nothing else.
> >
> > to me seems untrue.
>
> It came up in pkg/54365, and has been brought up by confused people on
> IRC various times. Actually, I started this thread because people were
> arguing about it on IRC and I wanted to propose something productive.
>
> I remember it confusing me as a new user. FreeBSD, for example, has a
> separate git-gui package, and 'git' is git-without-GUI. Now that I
> know how things work, I'm happy to install git-base and git-docs,
> but I would like to clarify things for new users.

I think most of the pkgsrc packages have tetex/svn/git to be a
comprehensive package and git-base (for example) to be just the base
packages.

I don't know where you guys come from, but that's how I remember it.

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