Subject: Re: Third party source [was re: airport codes.]
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: tech-misc
Date: 10/22/2000 13:04:55
| re: cvs
| 
| cvs is something all the developers use, and i think it makes sense to
| integrate that because (a) all the developers will and (b) it makes it
| easier for budding developers to start playing around.

This is not the right metric. It is important to have the tools
necessary to build the OS as a part of it, yes.

But not all users are developers (lowercase 'd'), by a long shot, and
including developer-only tools that developers can easily get from pkgsrc
is hardly compelling.

--jhawk