Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:35:19 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Zak Johnson <zakj-freebsd-arch@nox.cx>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenSSL vs. -lmd Message-ID: <20020803073519.GD47529@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <3D4ACA59.298777B@mindspring.com> References: <200208011151.55478.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <3D498FB4.6987B696@mindspring.com> <20020801195640.GQ26797@madman.nectar.cc> <3D4998F9.A736EA85@mindspring.com> <3D499CF3.4030601@ntlworld.com> <3D49A37B.BA3C2982@mindspring.com> <20020801212004.GC6856@opiate.nox.cx> <3D49AF37.C7E1E272@mindspring.com> <20020802154452.GA25577@opiate.nox.cx> <3D4ACA59.298777B@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 11:07:21AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Zak Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:59:19PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > I think the idea of fundamentally breaking the system into
> > > optional and highly granular components has a large amount
> > > of "grass roots" support; discussions like the packaging
> > > discussion would not attract nearly so much participation,
> > > were that not the case.
> >
> > What is preventing a change in this direction from happening inside
> > FreeBSD (as opposed to a new distribution)? Is there a large set of
> > committers who feel that making FreeBSD more/completely modular is a bad
> > idea? Or is everyone just waiting for libh?
>
> This is a good question.
And an easy question to answer. Many, many people would love this. All
it takes is someone or group of developers to DO IT rather than just
ramble on and on about how nice it would be to have and eventually
descend to the bikeshed about what should be a package and what should
be "core."
FreeBSD is free. Anyone can build their own packaging system to
distribute it. They can bake it for profit if they want! They can
offer it back to go into the repository (where it will be accepted
_somewhere,_ whether in the base or in the projects repo if it is any
good)! They can GLP it if they want! If you build it, they will come.
--
Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu
| cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org
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