Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:07:03 -0400 From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is xtend in the base system? Message-ID: <19980421150703.B7185@rtfm.net> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzpemyrgs83=2Efsf=40hrotti=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B_from?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav__on_Tue=2C_Apr_21=2C_1998_a?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?t_04:33:00PM_%2B0200?= References: <19980420155034.A4214@rtfm.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420161931.523T-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <19980420175822.A4615@rtfm.net> <xzpemyrgs83.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:33:00PM +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> 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... >From my understanding, a system with the "bin" distribution is supposed to have only the minimum necessary to run a FreeBSD system. /usr/games isn't part of the bin distro by the way, it's in the games distro (IIRC). /sys/* only get installed if you install the sources. X-10 may be useful to some people, but it's far from essential, and a port just seems like the Right Thing for it. At least to me. If no one else feels this way, then it'll stay in. No need for sarcastic comments :-) > Furrfu. > > -- > Noone else has a .sig like this one. -- ________________ ____________________________ / Nathan Dorfman \/ "Nietzsche is dead." - God \ / nathan@rtfm.net \ finger for pgp key \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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