From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 16 2:47:45 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 9DC2C37B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 02:47:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAAE743E42 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 02:47:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6G9i8XB092475; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:44:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Jordan K Hubbard , jos@catnook.com, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? In-Reply-To: Your message of "16 Jul 2002 11:24:39 +0200." Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:44:08 +0200 Message-ID: <92474.1026812648@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 In message , Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >Jordan K Hubbard writes: >> If libh ever makes it off the ground, you can bet that Tcl will enter >> the base system fairly rapidly since it will be required for >> everything from bootstrapping packages onto the system to actually >> installing the system itself. > >I'm not a big fan of having Tcl in the base system, but - what are we >waiting for? libh should have entered the tree a long time ago, >there's absolutely nothing to be gained from leaving it out in the >cold. It was my impression that we had abandonned the "lets put it in the tree and hope somebody else finishes it" policy long time ago ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message