From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 3 6:20:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F393B37B401; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 06:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (esplanaden.cybercity.dk [212.242.40.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3134143E6E; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 06:20:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g93DJnZ5003633; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:19:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Marc Recht , Alexander Langer , current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2002 19:32:52 EDT." Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 15:19:49 +0200 Message-ID: <3632.1033651189@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Garance A Drosihn writes: >I think it would be very prudent that any base-system expat have >it's own name, even if it's just "expat2fb". I have no opinion >on whether that should be the full expat2 or a stripped down >functionality, but I think we should make it clear that "this >is the expat which the base system needs -- if you do not like >this version, then use the appropriate port and don't complain >to us about which version we install in the base system". It sounds to me like this sums it up nicely. The thing about it I like is that it does not prevent us from taking the other route later on, whereas putting an "official-looking" expat in the tree and yanking that later would be a mess. Any famous last words before the fat lady sings ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message