From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 23 02:25:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7838F16A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 02:25:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from comp.chem.msu.su (comp-ext.chem.msu.su [158.250.32.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0676C43D5D for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 02:25:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yar@comp.chem.msu.su) Received: from comp.chem.msu.su (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by comp.chem.msu.su (8.12.3p3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id hBNAPeS9026830; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:25:41 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yar@comp.chem.msu.su) Received: (from yar@localhost) by comp.chem.msu.su (8.12.3p3/8.12.3/Submit) id hBNAPZBN026825; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:25:35 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yar) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:25:35 +0300 From: Yar Tikhiy To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20031223102534.GA25257@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <20031219105400.GA39759@comp.chem.msu.su> <20031220154849.GA75289@xor.obsecurity.org> <20031222081238.GA44441@comp.chem.msu.su> <20031223015637.GA9822@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031223015637.GA9822@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Archiver packages on FreeBSD CD 1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:25:48 -0000 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