From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 21 12:07:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21252 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 12:07:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from limbo.rtfm.net (nathan@rtfm.net [204.141.125.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21208 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:07:26 GMT (envelope-from nathan@limbo.rtfm.net) Received: (from nathan@localhost) by limbo.rtfm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA07257; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:07:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980421150703.B7185@rtfm.net> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:07:03 -0400 From: Nathan Dorfman To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is xtend in the base system? Mail-Followup-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= , current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19980420155034.A4214@rtfm.net> <19980420175822.A4615@rtfm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i 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_+0200?= Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:33:00PM +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > 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... >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