From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 21 14:47:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2659737B405; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:47:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15ZJVO-0000Hw-00; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:56:14 -0600 Message-ID: <3B82D8FE.92BFFE82@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:56:14 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Peter Wemm , Mark Murray , Mike Smith , Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libss termination References: <20010821123842.393F638FD@overcee.netplex.com.au> <3B825E5A.656BB9D9@mindspring.com> 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 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message