From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 30 21:32:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA06718 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 21:32:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@haiti-94.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA06712 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 21:32:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA06434; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 21:33:15 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 21:33:14 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Jacques Vidrine , "hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) In-Reply-To: <19477.880953184@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > ... I _am_ saying that software with such licenses should not be used in > > the implementation of FreeBSD itself or essential FreeBSD utilities, such > > as sysinstall. Why carry such luggage? > > What? Eh? I wasn't talking about doing anything of the sort in > FreeBSD. Sysinstall in Qt certainly isn't on *my* todo list and I > doubt that it ever would be unless somebody suddenly decided that they > wanted to pay me $100,000 to do it or something :-). That was me who suggested _that_. I still think that a graphical counterpart of sorts to sysinstall or its successor, (which you are writing right? ;-) ) is something, that would certianly add a little bit of polish to FBSD, and perhaps increase its userbase. While I'm kinda looking into something like that (whether it's Qt/KDE based or not), I'm not a very adept programmer, hence I'm not volunteering to write it (yet). > I was simply reacting to your implication (cited below) that KDE > shouldn't use it. - alex