From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 5 01:32:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA29409 for current-outgoing; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 01:32:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (ala-ca8-36.ix.netcom.com [207.93.141.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA29401 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 01:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.6/8.6.9) id BAA15988; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 01:32:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 01:32:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708050832.BAA15988@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au CC: jkh@time.cdrom.com, helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199708050759.RAA27445@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> (message from Michael Smith on Tue, 5 Aug 1997 17:29:53 +0930 (CST)) Subject: Re: Current is currently really a mess (was: Re: Tk/Tcl broken(?)) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * I don't want to sound like I'm coming down on anyone here, but if the * ports stuff was set up to be less intertwingled with the base system, * this wouldn't be so much of an issue. Well, that is the crux of the problem. I am currently working on that. (The shared library is the largest problem here...the rest is not that hard if we choose to ignore tcl in the base system.) Satoshi