Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:56:14 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libss termination Message-ID: <3B82D8FE.92BFFE82@softweyr.com> References: <20010821123842.393F638FD@overcee.netplex.com.au> <3B825E5A.656BB9D9@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> Peter Wemm wrote:
> >
> > > > > > As far as I can tell, there's nothing in the tree which uses
> > > > > > libss any longer, and hasnt been for quite some time. Is
> > > > > > there any reason to keep it?
> > > > >
> > > > > Nope.
> > > >
> > > > Right. Kill it.
> > >
> > > Are there any ports which depnd on it, and thus assume it's
> > > in the base system, which will need to be hacked to have a
> > > libss port on which they will need to depend?
> >
> > Well, why not have a look and find out? If so, supplying a list
> > is more productive than making somebody else go and look for you.
>
> It's not as easy as you paint it, since there are a lot
> of things that run config scripts and just "magically"
> find all sorts of libraries you never knew you had.
It should be pretty straightforward on the ports-building system; remove
libss and run the full-up ports build.
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