Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:25:35 +0300 From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Archiver packages on FreeBSD CD 1 Message-ID: <20031223102534.GA25257@comp.chem.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <20031223015637.GA9822@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20031219105400.GA39759@comp.chem.msu.su> <20031220154849.GA75289@xor.obsecurity.org> <20031222081238.GA44441@comp.chem.msu.su> <20031223015637.GA9822@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 05:56:38PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:12:38AM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > > I dreaded secretly that that was the real reason for those packages > > to appear on disk 1. All right, let it be so. But if there were some > > spare kilobytes on disk 1, I would not be the only one who wanted to > > see unarj and unrar there, too. They aren't large at all, and you > > know, having a particular archiver handy often is like possessing the > > right key to the door into the magic garden :-) > > Disk 1 has no free space, and often requires further pruning. A possible way of doing so can be removing numerous 10-year old variants and versions from tools/, along with no longer functional bits like fbsdboot.exe. I'm afraid including a program that stopped working several years ago into the distribution won't encourage anyone to fix it. But excuse me, discussing that would be an off-topic here. -- Yar
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