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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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