From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 3 17:06:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA28326 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 17:06:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.anasazi.com (mailhost.anasazi.com [138.113.128.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA28164; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 17:05:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chad.anasazi.com by mailhost.anasazi.com (5.65/3.7b) id AA19595; Sun, 3 Aug 97 17:05:10 -0700 Received: by chad.anasazi.com (5.65/3.7) id AA19969; Sun, 3 Aug 97 17:05:04 -0700 From: chad@anasazi.com (Chad R. Larson) Message-Id: <9708040005.AA19969@chad.anasazi.com> Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 17:05:03 -0700 (MST) Cc: davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <15386.870546758@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 2, 97 11:32:38 am Reply-To: chad@anasazi.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Once you start with TCL, it will *not* stop there - I can only assure > you of that. Perl will follow immediately behind, as will much other > stuff (yes perl fans, there are many out there who consider your > favorite utility language an evil, bloated monster which should not be > bundled with FreeBSD at all). I understand that there are other candidates for migration from the core system to ports/packages. I think that is a =good= thing. As long as the installation process makes it as easy as it now does (thanks, Jordan) to select a very personal feature set, I'd vote that all the packages/ports that duplicate a core system feature should be removed from the core system. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-870-3330 chad@anasazi.com chad@anasaz.UUCP chad@dcfinc.com Anasazi, Inc. - 7500 North Dreamy Draw Drive, Suite 120, Phoenix, Az 85020