Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 11:02:09 -0700 From: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/ptx COPYING ChangeLog Makefile NEWS README THANKS TODO alloca.c argmatch.c bumpalloc.h check-out config.h diacrit.c diacrit.h error.c getopt.c getopt.h getopt1.c mkinstalldirs ptx.c xmalloc.c ... Message-ID: <20020525110209.A93802@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <200205251801.g4PI16cc088128@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Sat, May 25, 2002 at 02:01:06PM -0400 References: <200205210920.g4L9KYs12113@freefall.freebsd.org> <200205251801.g4PI16cc088128@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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* From Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> > <<On Tue, 21 May 2002 02:20:34 -0700 (PDT), Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> said: > > > Remove ptx. It is not used anywhere in the base system, has not been > > maintained for years and is very old code. If there is any need for > > it, I suspect that ports would be a better place. > > It was ``used'' to build the indices for the printed volumes of manual > pages. See src/share/man/man0. Why don't we bring in BSD ptx then? Can't it do the job? Better to have crufty BSD software we seldom use than crufty+bloated GNU software we seldom use. -- J. Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD: The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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