Date: 21 Apr 1998 16:33:00 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is xtend in the base system? Message-ID: <xzpemyrgs83.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Nathan Dorfman's message of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 17:58:22 -0400" References: <19980420155034.A4214@rtfm.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420161931.523T-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <19980420175822.A4615@rtfm.net>
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Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> writes: > On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 04:20:22PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Nathan Dorfman wrote: > > > Why is xtend in the base system, anyway? It's definitely not > > > essential, AFAICS. Maybe it should be moved into ports? > > Because it uses kernel drivers and would be prone to getting crufty if it > > wasn't in the base. > Why can't this be done as an lkm that is installed from a port/package? Why don't we throw out the screensavers, too? And all of /usr/games, /usr/share/misc, /sys/i386/isa/sound, /sys/i386/isa/snd... Furrfu. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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