Re: sun-lamp CVS commits

["Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd%alpha.bostic.com@localhost>]

> Nothing else clashes so badly (i.e. so different in purpose).  Having an
> O/S release clash like this with a likely local package is, in my
> estimation, a bad thing.  Anyone using NetBSD in any sized organization
> with their own internal support should be collecting their own PRs from
> local users and only admins should be sending accurate PRs to NetBSD.

(1) gnats is _not_ a "likely local package" -- _very_ few sites will
        use it, except to report NetBSD bugs.  Far more sites will
        install the GNU textutils and the GNU fileutils than will
        install send-pr, and their functions are, in some cases,
        significantly different than the standard ones.

(2) anyone with their own internal support -- a very small number of
        sites -- should disable bug reporting from end-users to their
        software distributors, and so this should not be a problem
        for them.

Basically, you can't ask us to change the current behaviour, which is
the most sensible for the large majority of users, to suit the very
small class of users for which it won't work.

A better idea would be to get the people who maintain gnats to add
reasonable support for use with multiple packages.  There's actually
some support already there to do this, but i dunno how much, and i
dunno how much work would be needed to make it completely general.


chris