From owner-cvs-all Sat Dec 23 11: 3:34 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 11:03:31 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9ABE37B400; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 11:03:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipittythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA33397; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 11:03:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBNJ3TC33475; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 11:03:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 11:03:28 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Kris Kennaway Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/XFree86-aoutlibs Makefile Message-ID: <20001223110328.C33365@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200012210319.eBL3JEE44842@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001221122440.F628@tao.org.uk> <20001221060557.C26775@citusc.usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001221060557.C26775@citusc.usc.edu>; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:05:57AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: obrien@NUXI.com Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:05:57AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Yes. A solution would be to roll our own copy of the XFree86 3.3.3 > libraries + security patches. Are you going to take responsibility of getting this done? In this case, I think marking these libs forbidden is really, really the wrong thing to do. We should have learned from Micro$oft that the apps drive people to the OS, not the otherway around. You are now removing what some may say is the most important application today from running on FreeBSD. Maybe that would be the last straw to send a user to another version of Unix? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message