src/contrib/ policy

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:17:33PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     782MB for the whole repository, 354MB of which is contrib.  But most
>     of contrib is made up of one-offs.  We have multiple versions of
>     sendmail, a few of gcc, a few cvs, and that's pretty much it insofar
>     as the duplicates go.  GCC is a gimme... we have no choice but to
>     import major revs separately because we just can't afford to blow up
>     the core compiler.  The others only amount to ~40MB or so.  So as yet
>     I do not see the duplication as creating a problem.

Yes, but I have strictly kept it to one directory for each major
version, e.g. the various updates for GCC 3.4 are all in the same
subtree.

Joerg