From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 19 0:23:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3954437B406; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:23:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.141.193.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.141.193]) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA14444; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:23:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B568B17.FD21F20D@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:24:07 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Maxim Sobolev , "Andrey A. Chernov" , Garance A Drosihn , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libedit replacement for libreadline References: <20010716103351.A81876@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <20010716031932.A5930@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010717094027.A78232@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010717102713.A79329@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010718002343.A30891@nagual.pp.ru> <3B55B5E6.7D3659BD@mindspring.com> <3B55BAA6.79E9B9FD@FreeBSD.org> <3B55C4A5.2CD5B05A@mindspring.com> <20010718102636.A1399@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > I vote this too. We don't need stripped down libreadline under > > > > > 'libreadline' name pretend to be full version (f.e. for > > > > > autoconf, etc.) [ ... remember this sentence; it answers your question ... ] > > I'm saying "fix it both places, or it obviously is not a > > sufficient justification for a decision". > > > > Or to put it another way "if you are willing to live with > > it in one place, why not two?". > > What on earth are you talking about? I guess I need to paint a picture... The libcrypt* in /usr/lib is a symlink. It points to a "...stripped down [libcrypt] under '[libcrypt]'" that tries to "pretend to be a full version (f.e for [passwd], etc.". I should think the analogy between doing for libreadline what FreeBSD _already does_ for libcrypt should be obvious, now... So if you aren't willing to "fix" libcrypt to be the real thing under FreeBSD, now that export restrictions have been relaxed, I don't think you have any right to complain when someone does _exactly the same thing_, making libreadline* a symlink to libedit*, since your unwillingness to fix the former makes doing that "common, accepted practice". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message