Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 15:19:49 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Message-ID: <3632.1033651189@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2002 19:32:52 EDT." <p0511170fb9c130cfa786@[128.113.24.47]>
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In message <p0511170fb9c130cfa786@[128.113.24.47]>, Garance A Drosihn writes: >I think it would be very prudent that any base-system expat have >it's own name, even if it's just "expat2fb". I have no opinion >on whether that should be the full expat2 or a stripped down >functionality, but I think we should make it clear that "this >is the expat which the base system needs -- if you do not like >this version, then use the appropriate port and don't complain >to us about which version we install in the base system". It sounds to me like this sums it up nicely. The thing about it I like is that it does not prevent us from taking the other route later on, whereas putting an "official-looking" expat in the tree and yanking that later would be a mess. Any famous last words before the fat lady sings ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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