Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 18:35:58 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> Cc: msmith@mass.dis.org, arch@FreeBSD.org, jlemon@flugsvamp.com, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: libh src/ import Message-ID: <XFMail.010906183558.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200109062256.f86MuDo03899@mass.dis.org>
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On 06-Sep-01 Mike Smith wrote: >> > > Perhaps I don't know enough about what libh does (I thought it was a >> > > GUI library), but is it really beyond the realms of possibility that >> > > someone might want to use this for another purpose than the installer? >> >=20 >> > Yes, replacing dialog(1) calls in the ports tree for example. >> >> That seems to settle the issue of whether it should go in release/, >> then. > > FWIW, I think that putting libh in the base system is a Very Bad Idea. > > It should be a port, like sysinstall should be a port. Well, I think it should be src/contrib because we will need it for post-install config and managing packages, but I agree not in src/lib, src/usr.bin, etc. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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