Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:09:36 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Hartmut Brandt <harti@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/bsnmp - Imported sources Message-ID: <20031110100936.GA8977@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20031110104611.U29745@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <200311100853.hAA8rchS095414@repoman.freebsd.org> <20031110092945.GA8246@xor.obsecurity.org> <20031110103409.R29745@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20031110094330.GA8458@xor.obsecurity.org> <20031110104611.U29745@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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--PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:51:34AM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > KK>On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:37:54AM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: > KK> > KK>> KK>What is this? I don't remember it being discussed on the mailing > KK>> KK>lists, which is usual before importing new software into FreeBSD. > KK>> > KK>> That is the base for the NgATM ILMI daemon. While writing the commit > KK>> message I was thinking about whether or not to include an explanatio= n into > KK>> the commit message. We talked about this on the atm mailing list app= rox. a > KK>> year ago. > KK> > KK>That's pretty narrow distribution, and self-selected for people who > KK>think it's a good idea. >=20 > Well, discussing ATM issues with folks who don't care about ATM doesn't > make much sense though. The best you get is no response at all. If the > problem is that it is in contrib - the reason is that although the > development platform is FreeBSD this is actually portable code that runs > also on Solaris and Linux and has a different build environment for this > (gmake and autoconfig). The problem is that it's code that is useless to 99% of the FreeBSD userbase, so it's unclear whether it belongs in the base system instead of ports. Kris --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/r2PgWry0BWjoQKURAmu1AKC0O+hMMYIavIB3gsQnvuD+ZJSv2QCdFkU8 nFPA+XzgbAWoTllRPDoiAr4= =TLe8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9--
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