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Date:      Mon, 28 Dec 1998 19:58:45 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
Cc:        obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: wanton Atticizing is bad 
Message-ID:  <199812290358.TAA15263@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Dec 1998 05:45:11 %2B0200." <13960.20551.6406.312531@katiska.clinet.fi> 

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> David O'Brien writes:
>  > On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 05:32:03AM +0200, Heikki Suonsivu wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) writes:
>  > > >  * The cleanups have been discussed in -core.
>  > > > 
>  > > > There was no agreement about pcvt.
>  > > 
>  > > I do not mind removing pcvt *after* vt220 emulation is supported by
>  > 
>  > Or doing it 1st thing in 3.1-CURRENT, after 3.0-STABLE is branched.  This
>  > makes our intentions clear, and gives pcvt people time to realize they
>  > either need to write vt100 emulation in syscons or loss the
>  > functionality.
> 
> This still does not answer the issue.  Why it has to be removed ?

The author has abandoned it, and nobody else serious has stepped 
forward to maintain it.

We need to have a single console driver, and syscons is it.

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