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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2007 23:32:51 +0200
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: Removing file(1)+libmagic(3) from the base system
Message-ID:  <20070523213251.GA14733@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7158.1179947572@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <46546E16.9070707@freebsd.org> <7158.1179947572@critter.freebsd.dk>

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According to Poul-Henning Kamp:
> On this I would tend to disagree strongly.  The ability to identify
> random files have been a key component of UNIX for many years and
> I think people would be significantly surprised if we stopped
> providing it.

Agreed, take this message as a strong no from myself as well.
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Darwin sidhe.keltia.net Kernel Version 8.9.1: Thu Feb 22 20:55:00 PST 2007 i386



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