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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2001 01:04:31 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: libedit replacement for libreadline
Message-ID:  <20010719010430.A28432@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B568B17.FD21F20D@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:24:07AM -0700
References:  <p05101004b77a150da1f1@[128.113.24.47]> <20010717094027.A78232@xor.obsecurity.org> <p05101007b77a2351f9de@[128.113.24.47]> <20010717102713.A79329@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010718002343.A30891@nagual.pp.ru> <3B55B5E6.7D3659BD@mindspring.com> <3B55BAA6.79E9B9FD@FreeBSD.org> <3B55C4A5.2CD5B05A@mindspring.com> <20010718102636.A1399@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B568B17.FD21F20D@mindspring.com>

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On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:24:07AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > > I'm saying "fix it both places, or it obviously is not a
> > > sufficient justification for a decision".
> > >
> > > Or to put it another way "if you are willing to live with
> > > it in one place, why not two?".
> >
> > What on earth are you talking about?
>=20
> I guess I need to paint a picture...

> It points to a "...stripped down [libcrypt] under '[libcrypt]'"
> that tries to "pretend to be a full version (f.e for [passwd],
> etc.".
>=20
> I should think the analogy between doing for libreadline
> what FreeBSD _already does_ for libcrypt should be obvious,
> now...
>=20
> So if you aren't willing to "fix" libcrypt to be the real
> thing under FreeBSD, now that export restrictions have been
> relaxed, I don't think you have any right to complain when
> someone does _exactly the same thing_, making libreadline*
> a symlink to libedit*, since your unwillingness to fix the
> former makes doing that "common, accepted practice".

Okay, now I'm really confused.

a) libcrypt has been "reunified" for 7 months now; Peter did it last
December.

b) Regardless, I'm the one who was talking about making libreadline a
symlink to libedit, I wasn't arguing against it.

Kris

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