From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Aug 2 8:50:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69C0937B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 08:50:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nox.cx (nox.cx [216.12.18.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A16DF43E42 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 08:50:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zakj-freebsd-arch@nox.cx) Received: (qmail 25631 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Aug 2002 15:44:52 -0000 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:44:52 -0400 From: Zak Johnson To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenSSL vs. -lmd Message-ID: <20020802154452.GA25577@opiate.nox.cx> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200207311641.g6VGfRWj099655@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020801143059.GA536@nevermind.kiev.ua> <200208011151.55478.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <3D498FB4.6987B696@mindspring.com> <20020801195640.GQ26797@madman.nectar.cc> <3D4998F9.A736EA85@mindspring.com> <3D499CF3.4030601@ntlworld.com> <3D49A37B.BA3C2982@mindspring.com> <20020801212004.GC6856@opiate.nox.cx> <3D49AF37.C7E1E272@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D49AF37.C7E1E272@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:59:19PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > I think the idea of fundamentally breaking the system into > optional and highly granular components has a large amount > of "grass roots" support; discussions like the packaging > discussion would not attract nearly so much participation, > were that not the case. > > To readdress your idea of "an entirely new distribution": > if that's the only way the problem will be permitted to be > solved, then it's a likelihood; one way or another, the > problem *will* be solved, eventually, likely sonner than > later. What is preventing a change in this direction from happening inside FreeBSD (as opposed to a new distribution)? Is there a large set of committers who feel that making FreeBSD more/completely modular is a bad idea? Or is everyone just waiting for libh? -Zak To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message