From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 11 14:34:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DBB537B91D for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:34:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nimrodm@bezeqint.net) Received: from bsd.net.il ([212.179.173.246]) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0FXJ00MEVYHYWK@mail.bezeqint.net> for arch@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:32:23 +0300 (IDT) Received: (from nimrodm@localhost) by bsd.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA13393 for arch@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:25:58 +0300 (IDT envelope-from nimrodm) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:25:58 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues In-reply-to: ; from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 07:43:59PM +0200 To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: nimrodm@email.com Message-id: <20000712002558.A13291@localhost.bsd.net.il> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Mail-Followup-To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: <200007111722.KAA11493@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 07:43:59PM +0200, Narvi wrote: > > And unless there existed convinient to use collections of those (let's > call that bin dist), lot's of people would really hate that. I consider > the present system of being able to get a pretty unified standard base > system a big plus. That also means being able to depend on the presence of > such when writing programs/scripts and not wrorrying too much about that > there might be a system on which somebody forgot to install df, dd or > something else trivial. This scheme makes sense only for large components which have a well-defined interface. The MTA (i.e., sendmail, qmail, etc.) and LPR (lpr, lprng, cups) are good examples. Note that both these packages are not functional out-of-the-box without some configuration (usually). I don't think anyone is talking about applying this concept to df, dd and the others. -- Nimrod. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message