From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 10 8: 1:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CC0437B816; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 08:01:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA22081; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:01:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:01:07 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues Message-ID: <20000710100107.A21595@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20000710035127.B92445@dragon.nuxi.com> <791.963228136@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.5i In-Reply-To: <791.963228136@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from "Sheldon Hearn" on Mon Jul 10 13:22:16 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 10), Sheldon Hearn said: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 03:51:27 MST, "David O'Brien" wrote: > > Not an issue. If LPRng were imported into src/contib/, there would > > be BSD make Makefiles that we create in /usr/src/usr.bin/..... > > Do you have ideas on how to handle the optional features of the > package, such as mysql support? The author listed a few features > which would rely on packages in the ports tree. This was the reason > I felt that LPRng is better suited to being provided as a port. There's no reason to remove the port; it'll be just like the gcc port, which includes languages not installed into the base OS (java & objc). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message