From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 11 11: 5:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C86737BAB2 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:05:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA68534; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:05:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:05:21 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues Message-ID: <20000711110520.D84457@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000711092233.F26861@dragon.nuxi.com> <200007111722.KAA11493@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200007111722.KAA11493@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 10:22:21AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 10:22:21AM -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > Then how about we rip LPR from the base system and let people install the > > printing system they need from ports? I was being sarcastic. I should have known this single sentence would start a thread. > This would be a huge step in the right direction. We should do the > same with Sendmail, BIND, nvi, and every other component of the O/S. Everyone already agrees with this. BUT it will not -- cannot happen until someone contributes the bits that make this happen. So it isn't worth arguing about. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message