Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 16:24:29 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: "Garance A Drosihn" <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Sheldon Hearn" <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, "Marc Recht" <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de>, "Alexander Langer" <alex@big.endian.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Message-ID: <4588.1033655069@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:37:36 EDT." <007f01c26ae2$09b11ab0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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In message <007f01c26ae2$09b11ab0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>, "Matthew Emmerton" w
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>> >I think it would be very prudent that any base-system expat have
>> >it's own name, even if it's just "expat2fb". I have no opinion
>> >on whether that should be the full expat2 or a stripped down
>> >functionality, but I think we should make it clear that "this
>> >is the expat which the base system needs -- if you do not like
>> >this version, then use the appropriate port and don't complain
>> >to us about which version we install in the base system".
>>
>
>Now I realize that expat is much less complicated than Perl, but have we
>fully addressed interoperability concerns? I know that the /usr vs
>${LOCALDIR}distinction between the base system and ports fixes most of them,
>at least for experienced users.
I think you must have misunderstood the proposal. If the library
and include file are named "libxmlio" or something, I don't see how
ports could be affected.
At least not until somebody starts deliberately looking for that name.
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