Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 15:27:11 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig and libraries Message-ID: <21193.918170831@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Feb 1999 23:36:26 %2B0200." <64244.918164186@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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> The paragraph above worries me. I've always had a sense that the people > determining directions for FreeBSD are people who are "abiding by a > code", in a sense -- that they know The Right Thing and try to keep > things as pure as possible. Your sense is correct. That's pretty much how we try to do things, even when we're compromising on something since it effects the degree and the nature of such compromises. > Is this a misperception? If the vast majority of users wanted something > that was an incredibly bad idea, would it be adopted within FreeBSD or > turfed out? Not an incredibly bad idea, no. An idea which had some bad aspects to it but was overall something which was really really needed, that might be a compromise candidate, however. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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