From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Feb 18 9: 0: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7901F37B4EC for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 09:00:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14UXJt-00009o-00; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 10:08:21 -0700 Message-ID: <3A900185.54C97B10@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 10:08:21 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Murray Cc: Julian Elischer , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Summary of List of things to move from main tree to ports References: <3A8E47DC.FAF7F962@elischer.org> <200102181155.f1IBt7957868@gratis.grondar.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Murray wrote: > > > I remember how ill I felt the first time I encountered a Unix system with > > no C compiler... > > The idea here not not "no C Compiler" or in fact "no _anything_". Those > are release-engineer policy decisions today, and customer choices > tomorrow. > > _That_ is the point. Right. For instance, why would you want to cram a C compiler on a flash- based firewall? Or even a disk-based one? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message