Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:57:35 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: doscmd removal Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403141357170.7997-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20040314102936.GA23469@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 07:29:44AM +0200, John Hay wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:26:15PM +1100, Tim Robbins wrote: > > > I plan to remove doscmd from the base system for the sole reason that it > > > is no longer useful. Any objections? > > > > Why would you want to remove it? It is still very usefull. I use it > > regularly. The only drawback currently is that the Makefile is set > > up in such a way that it does not pick up X during a "make world", > > so after a "make world" you have to build it again to pick up X. > > Built without X it is less usefull. > > Because MS-DOS emulation is not widely useful in 2004, at least not > enough to be needed in the base system. But I have already said that > I will now wait until FreeBSD 6 before considering removing doscmd, > so there's no point arguing over this anymore right now. we can argue about it then..
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