From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 3 11:50:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F68D151F6 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:50:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from localhost (brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA17451; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:48:07 -0700 (PDT) From: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net X-Authentication-Warning: orion.ac.hmc.edu: brdavis owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:48:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Chuck Robey , FreeBSD Ports Team Subject: Re: ports/13552: The gnuplot doesn't build with GIF support enabled In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > As the person who upgraded the gd port to avoid copyright problems > I strongly disagree with libgdold. If we just have to have it, I think > it should be RESTRICTED/NO_PACKAGE/whatever. I agree, I don't like the idea that to make the gnuplot author happy we're going to continue to encourage people to use GIFs by providing discontinued and unmaintained software. Instead of helping Unisys by continuing to promote the inferior GIF format we should be progressing and encourage people to get off their lazy asses and upgrade to PNG compatiable software. -- Brooks P.S. I am sorry about the duplicate PR, I should have checked first. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message