From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 05:20:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1C7B37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 05:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arthur.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A71FF4402F for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 05:20:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@arthur.nitro.dk) Received: by arthur.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 592EE10BFA8; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:20:27 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:20:27 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Paul Robinson Message-ID: <20030626122023.GB763@nitro.dk> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030625214311.00e5e240@localhost> <20030626010357.J508@hub.org> <20030626110336.GW34365@iconoplex.co.uk> <20030626113553.GA53078@packet.org.uk> <20030626115133.GA57378@iconoplex.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cvVnyQ+4j833TQvp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030626115133.GA57378@iconoplex.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: Peter McGarvey cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:20:32 -0000 --cvVnyQ+4j833TQvp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003.06.26 12:51:33 +0100, Paul Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:35:53PM +0100, Peter McGarvey wrote: >=20 > > But as awk is usually available on other Unixes, I'm apt to rely on it's > > existance. So I'd hate to see it go. >=20 > There is nothing stopping it being a port/package. Actually there is. awk is a part of IEEE Std 1003.1, so if we want FreeBSD to be, or at least as much as possible, a real UNIX it can't be removed. It is also used quite a bit in the build system, espcially since perl was removed. > The more I look at that list though, the more of them I think could be=20 > pulled out as external packages/ports If you are willing to go through all the bikesheding you can try :-). --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --cvVnyQ+4j833TQvp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE++uUH8kocFXgPTRwRAnrhAKCe7i/96Lr51wfG/XqVh6QhGJTigQCfZu7P rmq1Rw9tsP85/Zhvk4dh6MI= =ZY6y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cvVnyQ+4j833TQvp--