From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 26 22:00:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01730 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:00:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com ([169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01710; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:00:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA07023; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:00:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:00:01 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Satoshi Asami Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: removing f2c from base distribution Message-ID: <19990126220000.G4119@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199901262148.NAA07097@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <199901270116.RAA64007@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <199901270116.RAA64007@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 05:16:45PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Um, I'm still alive but can someone explain me why this can't be a > "regular" port? Being useful to some but not the majority, no other > parts of the system depending on it, this looks like a model citizen > in the ideal ports world. :) Because we loose control over it. There is a move to push some things out of the base system and into ports. Fine, but then how does bug fixes happen? I believe the committed that fixed the f2c problems on the Alpha really liked having the abilility to do so. For many parts of the system, I really think we need to make the optional and installable as ports, but the *maintance* of them should stay along our traditional means. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message