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 Cc: fenner@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcpslice out of date Message-ID: 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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--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/ha6y2MoxcVugUsMRAiLHAKD5iy7dV6AVBTCVV3zI3ijckJkmDQCfdkeU tjYdCLJgy2ExyvO3mZ1NSG0= =ZUaa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR--
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