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Date:      Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:53:38 -0700
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>
To:        Damian Gerow <damian@sentex.net>
Cc:        fenner@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcpslice out of date
Message-ID:  <20031009185338.GA17323@intruder.kitchenlab.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031009172101.GL27822@sentex.net>
References:  <20031009025421.8407143FAF@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20031009171050.GA15948@intruder.kitchenlab.org> <20031009172101.GL27822@sentex.net>

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If memory serves me right, Damian Gerow wrote:
> Thus spake Bruce A. Mah (bmah@freebsd.org) [09/10/03 13:11]:
> > There's a newer (Y2K-compliant) version in ports (net/tcpslice).  I
> > was talking with Bill Fenner (CC-ed) about the possibility of
> > importing this newer version to the base system but I think both of us
> > had too many other things to deal with.  :-p
> >=20
> > IMHO, we should either import a newer version to the base system or
> > kill it altogether and rely on the one in ports.
>=20
> I was actually wondering why tcpdump is installed as part of the base
> system, but that's a whole other can I'm not opening.

Because it's been there for a long time, and there's a general
concensus that it's useful to have it.  The usefulness of tcpslice in
the base system is more debatable.

> I would be okay with either.  But I'd rather avoid needing two installed
> versions of tcpslice.

Put another way: "we shouldn't have a utility in the base system that
contains a bug that renders it mostly useless".  Whether that means
importing a version that has the bug fixed or whether it means
removing it, well, I don't have a strong opinion.

> I'd do the import for you, but alas, I have not a
> commit bit.

I do have a src/ commit bit but I'm much more comfortable swimming in
the waters of doc/ and src/release/doc/.  :-)

Bruce.

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