From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 21 07:33:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA15452 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 07:33:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15446 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 14:33:08 GMT (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id QAA01837; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:33:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:33:01 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Dorfman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is xtend in the base system? References: <19980420155034.A4214@rtfm.net> <19980420175822.A4615@rtfm.net> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS / YASMW X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 21 Apr 1998 16:33:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: Nathan Dorfman's message of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 17:58:22 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nathan Dorfman writes: > On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 04:20:22PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Nathan Dorfman wrote: > > > Why is xtend in the base system, anyway? It's definitely not > > > essential, AFAICS. Maybe it should be moved into ports? > > Because it uses kernel drivers and would be prone to getting crufty if it > > wasn't in the base. > Why can't this be done as an lkm that is installed from a port/package? Why don't we throw out the screensavers, too? And all of /usr/games, /usr/share/misc, /sys/i386/isa/sound, /sys/i386/isa/snd... Furrfu. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message