From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 11 9:22:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB62337B533 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:22:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA62667; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:22:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:22:33 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues Message-ID: <20000711092233.F26861@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <82343.963323518@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <82343.963323518@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:51:58PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:51:58PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > I'm pretty sure that there's very little to be gained by importing LPRng > into the base system, since: > > 1) We seem to have an active lpr maintainer again. I'll believe it when I see him actively _committing_ to it. We've had so many people step forward to maintain something and then never get around to doing it. > 2) Many folks don't need the additional functionality of LPRng. And many do. > 3) Many folks who need LPRng will have to install it from the ports to > get all of its functionality. Then how about we rip LPR from the base system and let people install the printing system they need from ports? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message