Re: HEADS UP: Name change committed

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 8:45 AM -0500 11/19/03, David Rhodus wrote:
> Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
> > At 9:05 PM -0800 11/18/03, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >
> > > :That get me wondering what's DragonFly's plan to have branches?
> > >
> > >     I'd personally rather not have branches.  I think we can
> > >     do it by simply using tags.
> >
> >
> > I think that once DragonFly goes "production", users will want
> > branches.  They'll want something like the freebsd-security
> > (or maybe call it freebsd-safe) branch.
>
>
> I'm not sure that will be needed once we vfs layering is complete
> along with the packaging system. All of the security updates can
> be pushed out via a tagging inside the packaging system. ...

Hmm.  Yeah, that's a good point.  That goal is such a major
change that I keep forgetting how much potential it has to
change the way "Business is Done".

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