From owner-cvs-all Wed Apr 10 22:14:31 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA8E37B404; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:14:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3B5ENeZ070687; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 07:14:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , asmodai@wxs.nl, jhb@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Feature removal without replacement In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:42:03 +0930." <20020411114203.H54120@wantadilla.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 07:14:23 +0200 Message-ID: <70686.1018502063@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20020411114203.H54120@wantadilla.lemis.com>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes: >That doesn't mean that it's wrong to remove it, but we should do it >consciously. In this case, it looks as if phk misunderstood peter's >intentions and axed it. Even if that's not the case, though, who >makes these decisions? I think it should be the core team for >anything which affects the view of the system from the outside. The people who do things make decisions as part of doing things. Userconfig was a gruesome hack, it had its heyday in the ISA days, but today we can barely find ISA systems which 5.0 will fit on. Get on with life Greg, and pay more attention in the future so you don't start bikesheds a year after the fact... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message