From owner-cvs-all Sun Feb 21 14:48:31 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DF4710E9A for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:48:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20300; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:33:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from s204m82.isp.whistle.com(207.76.204.82) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdw20298; Sun Feb 21 22:33:20 1999 Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:32:59 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@s204m82.isp.whistle.com To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Larry Lile , "Daniel C. Sobral" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current status of the olicom fracas. In-Reply-To: <17260.919620937@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > One of the problems in the FreeBSD project is that we are sometimes > way too centralist. This is one such instance. Code doesn't HAVE > to be in the freebsd source tree to be used. There are quite a > few pieces of software "floating around" for FreeBSD that is not > in the source tree. (There are also quite a number of bits in the > source tree that shouldn't be in there, but rather should be separate > packages). As it is now, puting a driver in some external place is the kiss of death. I KNOW OF no such pieces "floating around" that are in common usage, because there is no way to easily find them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message