From owner-cvs-all Sat May 25 11: 2:13 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id B822B37B409; Sat, 25 May 2002 11:02:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 11:02:09 -0700 From: "J. Mallett" To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Mark Murray , 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> References: <200205210920.g4L9KYs12113@freefall.freebsd.org> <200205251801.g4PI16cc088128@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i 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 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , X-Affiliated-Projects: FreeBSD, xMach, ircd-hybrid-7 X-Towel: Yes Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * From Garrett Wollman > < 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 FreeBSD: The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message