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Date:      Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:48:12 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Sergey Lyubka <valenok@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pcre in base system
Message-ID:  <20050217194812.GE56059@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <72c3a95705021711371c45952d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:37:14PM +0000, Sergey Lyubka wrote:
> So it will.
> If regex(3) will be decoupled from libc, one can remap
> libregex to pcre, for example.
> 
> > > greater reliance on ports.  An interesting approach could be to
> > > break out regex(3) from libc and allow base utilities to use shared
> > > libraries from ports - this would allow someone to install the pcre
> > > port and have the base sed(1) use it.
> > 
> > Uh, no.  /usr/src should be self-contained.

DON'T TOP POST.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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