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Subject: Re: How about import mpd into base system?
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On Wednesday 02 March 2005 12:17 am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:10:19PM +0900, Sangwoo Shim wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 06:29:03PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > > In message <200503011650.j21GoI7o018125@peedub.jennejohn.org>,
> > > Gary Jennejohn w
> > >
> > > rites:
> > > >Sangwoo Shim writes:
> > > >> Mpd is likely to be used by FreeBSD (and might DFBSD)
> > > >> exclusively. So, how about import mpd into the base tree? Is
> > > >> there any stopper to prevent mpd from being included into the
> > > >> tree?
> > > >
> > > >Why? /usr/sbin/ppp supports PPPoE just fine and is already in
> > > > the base.
> > >
> > > They should be merged.
> > >
> > > mpd-netgraph has functionality missing in the ppp in the base
> > > system.
> >
> > Exactly my opinion. I'm glad to know you think like that!
> > Hmm, I'm curious whether there is any commiter planning mpd import.
>
> He said 'merged', as in 'combined into one program instead of having
> two (three, including pppd) separate ppp implementations that do
> almost the same thing'.

By the way, I think the time has come for pppd/chat/if_ppp.c to leave 
the base and go back to being a 3rd party port.
-- 
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
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