Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 02:08:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: recent imports Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.10006060200420.7037-100000@jason.argos.org> In-Reply-To: <393B9FF5.56D8B077@FreeBSD.org>
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> IMHO it is very strange idea to put archivers capable to handle archives used
> on other OSes into emulators category. Under this assumption we probably should
> move stuff like Gnumeric, KOffice. AbiWord, StarOffice etc. into emulators as
> well just because those programs allow using data created on other platforms
> (most notably Win32/MSOffice).
Or you can look at this way: these (archiver) programs don't EMULATE
diddly-squat. They are stand-alone programs that have their own opinions
as to how things should be done, their own flags, etc.
This kind of thing requires a bit of "looking forward into the political
aspects" of this decision. Do we want FreeBSD to be known as a system
that emulates DOS (where "emulation" usually has a negative feeling about
it - I have yet to find an emulator that can't be distinguished from the
original), or as a system that handles Macintosh files just as easily as a
Mac does?
--mike
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Understated/funny man-page sentence of the current time period:
From route(4) on FreeBSD-3.4, DESCRIPTION section:
"FreeBSD provides some packet routing facilities."
...duh.......
Mike Nowlin, N8NVW mike@argos.org http://www.viewsnet.com
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