From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 11 00:48:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D88B16A4CE for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:48:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.omnis.com (smtp.omnis.com [216.239.128.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71BD843D31 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:48:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.homeunix.net (66-91-236-204.san.rr.com [66.91.236.204]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE0C1880C1A; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:48:52 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: Paul Robinson Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:48:52 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040108163724.GA26745@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <200401101945.27234.wes@softweyr.com> <400108FC.9010008@iconoplex.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <400108FC.9010008@iconoplex.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401110048.52747.wes@softweyr.com> cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 08:48:54 -0000 On Sunday 11 January 2004 12:27 am, Paul Robinson wrote: > > Perhaps I'm missing something, and I can see why abondoning the current > method in 5-6 years would be reasonable, but I don't see the immediate > advantage of making the change right now. So you'll be signing up to do the floppy release engineering, and to modify the kernel so it can load the boot-device modules dynamically. That's great news! > And I have to say, I agree. If abondoning floppies is part of some > well-thought-out and well-planned package management strategy, I'm all > for it. Otherwise, let sleeping dogs lie? The dog isn't sleeping, it's dead. Like everything else in FreeBSD, it takes time. If someone wants to donate that time, it'll continue getting done, otherwise it'll fall by the wayside. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com