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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Anybody using netns?
To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 16:29:34 -0700 (MST)
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> Purhaps there should be a separate area for unsupported hunks of code
> so they don't disappear forever.  I worry that code placed in the
> attic will eventually be deleted for good.
> 
> If it is elsewhere, but available, then people that want it can get
> it, while people that don't won't have to worry about it.
> 
> In other words, make them unsupported source packages, AS IS.
> 
> Finally, I don't believe that -current represents all of the user
> base.  While the conclusion reached by a survey of -current might be
> congruent with those of the entire community, you might find more
> people using this stuff than you had originally thought...

I completely agree.  There should be an area, like "experimental"
called "legacy" or "unsupported".

I should not have to set up SUP and CVS to get something out of an
attic that might be going away.


I think that this is the kind of mistake that helps perpetuate
single architecture support.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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