From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 23 18:05:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B235816A41F for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 18:05:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E12C13C458 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 18:05:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.212]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JII00APAA8MA8C0@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:05:10 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.7]) by pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JII00ICNA8BIX00@pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:05:11 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0JII00AFOA8AJC80@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:04:58 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 2033 invoked from network); Wed, 23 May 2007 18:04:47 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hexahedron.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Wed, 23 May 2007 18:04:47 +0000 Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:04:47 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: To: Daniel Eischen Message-id: <4654823F.8000502@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 References: <46546E16.9070707@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070511) Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: RFC: Removing file(1)+libmagic(3) from the base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:05:35 -0000 Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2007, Colin Percival wrote: >> Can anyone make a strong argument for keeping this code in the base >> system? > > Yes, because other OS's have it (file) in their base, and because > it is a POSIX-defined utility. To be fair, POSIX does define it as being optional. > Please consider this a strong no. Noted. Colin Percival