Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:10:12 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody using netns? Message-ID: <9602122010.AA23570@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199602121951.MAA20631@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <9602121907.AA23894@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199602121951.MAA20631@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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<<On Mon, 12 Feb 1996 12:51:03 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> said: >> Because they bloat the source tree with useless code? > There isn't room for them in compressed format on 2 600+M CDROMS? I'm not in the CD-ROM business and couldn't care less how much space they take in that medium. I do care about how much space they take up on people's hard disks. >> Because they mostly duplicate functionality found elsewhere? > Where else is XNS implemented? Nowhere. That's the whole point: nobody uses it, and we've get this rotting source code in our tree that hasn't been maintained for ages. I don't want to ship garbage with our kernel! -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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