From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 30 23:52:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA10237 for current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA10224 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:52:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA19994; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:51:54 -0700 (PDT) To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD current Subject: Re: core group topics In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jul 1997 18:49:25 EDT." Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:51:53 -0700 Message-ID: <19990.870331913@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 1) Satoshi's new Makefile. His makefile has been around plenty long > enough for testing, and while several people have reported good results, > I've seen no negatives reported at all. Will it get ignored or committed? I think it's hung up on the question of what to do with LDDESTDIR - all agree that it's broken as currently used now but no one wants to bell the cat, either. :-) > 2) John Polstra's ELF work. He's done all the work that anyone could > possibly want, to move FreeBSD to ELF. There are several good reasons to > move, and none excepting inertia not to. I know that moving FreeBSD to Erm, "none excepting inertia and fear of chaos, confusion, shock and increased entropy all around." :) Inflicting another ABI on our user base, one which will result in a new class of packages which all older FreeBSD releases cannot run, is NOT something to be considered lightly. Jordan