From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 10 9:28: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shale.csir.co.za (shale.csir.co.za [146.64.46.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 934A414EB6 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 09:28:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reg@shale.csir.co.za) Received: (from reg@localhost) by shale.csir.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA99699; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:23:17 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from reg) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:23:16 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: The Hermit Hacker , Brian Handy , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system. Message-ID: <19990410182316.G6250@shale.csir.co.za> References: <19990409155258.A3791@shale.csir.co.za> <370E0C68.3F59295C@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <370E0C68.3F59295C@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 11:19:21PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 11:19:21PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Right or wrong, you forgot: > > 5. BSD tradition. > > Case 5 justifies Fortran. > Me, I'd rather have Fortran as a port. I'd even grudgingly accept > fortune as a port, as a matter of fact. Our base system is bloated. > While a lot of widely used programs are only available through > ports, a lot of obscure and obsolete stuff remains on our tree. They > are there because of 5. As long as 5 exists, Fortran belongs in the > tree. If we ever get rid of 5, then it's time to get the knife to > our tree... Or the axe, if the vikings decide to have the first cut. > :-) Invoking: 6. Whoever brings patches wins. :) -Jeremy -- | "I could be anything I wanted to, but one things true --+-- Never gonna be as big as Jesus, never gonna hold the world in my hand | Never gonna be as big as Jesus, never gonna build a promised land | But that's, that's all right, OK with me..." -Audio Adrenaline To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message