Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:43:15 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcpslice out of date Message-ID: <20031009224315.GX91404@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3F85C63B.40508@tenebras.com> References: <20031009025421.8407143FAF@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20031009171050.GA15948@intruder.kitchenlab.org> <3F85C63B.40508@tenebras.com>
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On 2003-Oct-09 13:34:03 -0700, Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> wrote: >Bruce A. Mah wrote: > >>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 >> >>IMHO, we should either import a newer version to the base system or >>kill it altogether and rely on the one in ports. > >There is some wisdom in not including it in the base system. There's >way too much stuff there, I'm of the "it should all be packages" >school. I'd support this as well - at least for -CURRENT. It's too much of a POLA violation to remove it from -STABLE, though it would be nice to have the installed version brought up to date. >Is there any other set of executables that depends on libpcap? I thought dhclient might but it doesn't seem to, so I can't think of anything. Peter
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