From owner-cvs-all Thu Dec 30 3:23:37 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E39314F6C; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 03:23:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA58513; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:23:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org, Steve Price , 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Dec 1999 02:42:49 PST." <19991230024249.A38770@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:23:13 +0100 Message-ID: <58511.946552993@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 > > >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