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Date:      Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:18:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>, pst@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/xditview ... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.960807211135.1769B-100000@klemm.gtn.com>
In-Reply-To: <8675.839248138@time.cdrom.com>

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On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> I think we're arguing apples and doorknobs here.  A scattering of
> reasonable dotfiles for the purpose of making a new user's environment
> a little nicer and, at worst, ignored if unused is not the same as
> code which is essentially uncompilable in our tree without the
> addition of another major component which we do not provide by
> default.

That sound's reasonable. 

But one might argue, that a good login environment could also 
be done by the configure scripts in the ports collection.

Another thing is, that fvwm is certainly a nice, but not the 
only window manager, that's available for free. So what, if th
user decides to use afterstep, then the .fvwmrc file is useless.

Although I agree with you in most points, Jordan, I think, that this
should move into ports.

And I think xditview should stay, since FreeBSD uses groff. We
shouldn't split the package or make a port of the complete groff
package. But I'd vote for keeping groff in the source tree, but
then complete.

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