From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 2 12:56:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B832837B401; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.allcaps.org (h-66-166-142-198.SNDACAGL.covad.net [66.166.142.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A6B43E6A; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:56:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsder@mail.allcaps.org) Received: by mail.allcaps.org (Postfix, from userid 501) id 0731B154CD; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:56:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.allcaps.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0EC8154B2; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:56:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:56:19 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew P. Lentvorski" To: Marc Recht Cc: Alexander Langer , , , Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? In-Reply-To: <20021002135749.4ba3abc3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> Message-ID: <20021002124701.H30338-100000@mail.allcaps.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Marc Recht wrote: > IMO 1. would be better with a complete expat. So the ports could use the > system version and probably/maybe the drift between the official- and > system-version will not be that big. And compared to Perl expat it > rather small. So the bloat couldn't be that big.. This strikes me as a step in the wrong direction. Isn't FreeBSD moving to making more things optional packages rather than direct parts of base? If Perl and the userland things which depend upon it can be made into install time packages, what's stopping the same thing from being done for GEOM (ie. libexpat and the userland things which depend upon it)? -a To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message