From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 13 20:24:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEF5716A4CE; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:24:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B605843D2F; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:24:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 6A9791472C; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:24:56 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:24:56 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Linimon X-X-Sender: linimon@pancho To: Tim Robbins In-Reply-To: <20040314034949.GA22121@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 05:47:17 -0800 cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" Subject: Re: RFC: doscmd removal X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 04:24:56 -0000 On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Tim Robbins wrote: > Even assuming that it works perfectly (which it does not), do you honestly > believe that MS-DOS emulation is so widely useful that it needs to be in > the base system instead of the ports collection? This sounds like a good candidate for something to be done in 6.0, leaving it 5.x for an appropriate deprecation period. I mean, my understanding is that 5 is supposed to be the new STABLE in ... what, just a few weeks, anyways? mcl