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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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