From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Sep 6 18:36: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56F6037B403; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@[147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA01979; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:36:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200109062256.f86MuDo03899@mass.dis.org> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 18:35:58 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: libh src/ import Cc: msmith@mass.dis.org, arch@FreeBSD.org, jlemon@flugsvamp.com, Jordan Hubbard , Alexander Langer , Kris Kennaway 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 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 -- 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