From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jul 6 7:36:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E0C37B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 07:36:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from llar.net.uniovi.es (llar.net.uniovi.es [156.35.11.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E3E43E42 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 07:36:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobrado@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.llar.net.uniovi.es by llar.net.uniovi.es (PMDF V6.1 #39514) id <01KJS4XLZNSW009NTT@llar.net.uniovi.es> for arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2002 16:36:47 +0200 (MET) Received: from string1.ciencias.uniovi.es (string1.ciencias.uniovi.es [156.35.97.40]) by llar.net.uniovi.es (PMDF V6.1 #39514) with ESMTP id <01KJS4XK8CKC00AAAQ@llar.net.uniovi.es> for arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2002 16:36:45 +0200 (MET) Received: from string1.ciencias.uniovi.es (sobrado@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by string1.ciencias.uniovi.es (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g66EajE32402 for ; Sat, 06 Jul 2002 16:36:45 +0200 Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 16:36:45 +0200 From: Igor Sobrado Subject: software in /usr/contrib To: arch@freebsd.org Message-id: <200207061436.g66EajE32402@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Moving some software in *strong evolution* (bzip, gzip, zip, Perl, and Tcl/Tk) to /usr/contrib will be useful to avoid some problems that we saw in the last years in other Unices like Solaris. A description of some of those problems is in [bin/40222]. This practice has been adopted by BSD/OS and HP-UX at least. Cheers, Igor. -- Igor Sobrado, UK34436 - sobrado@acm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message