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Date:      Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:23:13 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org, Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/devel Makefile ports/devel/gperf Makefile ports/devel/gperf/files md5 ports/devel/gperf/patches patch-aa ports/devel/gperf/pkg COMMENT DESCR PLIST 
Message-ID:  <58511.946552993@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Dec 1999 02:42:49 PST." <19991230024249.A38770@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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In message <19991230024249.A38770@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>>   Log:
>>   Adding gperf version 2.7
>>   Generates perfect hash functions for sets of keywords.
>>   
>>   PR:		12904
>>   Submitted by:	Dirk Meyer <dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org>
>
>
>Feh.  Dare I ask why this was done as a port, rather than a PR being
>submitted that `gperf' in the base system should be up graded?  If we
>keep having ports that duplicate much of the GNU tools we have in the
>base src tree, why don't we just remove them all from the base tree and
>do the package thing.

Because sysinstall isn't up to snuff to do that yet.  Otherwise it would
have happened long time ago.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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