From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 2 20:01:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA00298 for current-outgoing; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 20:01:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA00293 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 20:01:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id XAA26586; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 23:01:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id XAA13470; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 23:01:25 -0400 (EDT) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 02 Aug 1997 19:15:55 PDT." <17417.870574555@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 23:01:24 -0400 Message-ID: <13465.870577284@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote in message ID <17417.870574555@time.cdrom.com>: > That's basically the idea for Son Of Sysinstall. What an apt name. Lets just hope it comes in time to answer the SOS of people reading this **** flame war. I'll admit I use perl. Why? Because at a past job it was used for a lot of stuff. Never used TCL (although I have a book on it at home which should get read sometime). If push came to shove, I'd prefer NOT having either of them installed by default. There is no clean way to ensure that we don't have recurrances of the current situation that we have with perl4 (and others) festering nicely in /usr/src. However, any move which will (later) allow us to rip such stuff out screaming is good. If SOS, down the road, can give us the necessary compartmentalism to do this, then a few months of pulled hair will be worth it. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info