Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 01:04:31 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libedit replacement for libreadline Message-ID: <20010719010430.A28432@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <3B568B17.FD21F20D@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:24:07AM -0700 References: <p05101004b77a150da1f1@[128.113.24.47]> <20010717094027.A78232@xor.obsecurity.org> <p05101007b77a2351f9de@[128.113.24.47]> <20010717102713.A79329@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010718002343.A30891@nagual.pp.ru> <3B55B5E6.7D3659BD@mindspring.com> <3B55BAA6.79E9B9FD@FreeBSD.org> <3B55C4A5.2CD5B05A@mindspring.com> <20010718102636.A1399@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B568B17.FD21F20D@mindspring.com>
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--BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:24:07AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I'm saying "fix it both places, or it obviously is not a > > > sufficient justification for a decision". > > > > > > Or to put it another way "if you are willing to live with > > > it in one place, why not two?". > > > > What on earth are you talking about? >=20 > I guess I need to paint a picture... > It points to a "...stripped down [libcrypt] under '[libcrypt]'" > that tries to "pretend to be a full version (f.e for [passwd], > etc.". >=20 > I should think the analogy between doing for libreadline > what FreeBSD _already does_ for libcrypt should be obvious, > now... >=20 > So if you aren't willing to "fix" libcrypt to be the real > thing under FreeBSD, now that export restrictions have been > relaxed, I don't think you have any right to complain when > someone does _exactly the same thing_, making libreadline* > a symlink to libedit*, since your unwillingness to fix the > former makes doing that "common, accepted practice". Okay, now I'm really confused. a) libcrypt has been "reunified" for 7 months now; Peter did it last December. b) Regardless, I'm the one who was talking about making libreadline a symlink to libedit, I wasn't arguing against it. Kris --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7VpSNWry0BWjoQKURAuhsAJ9ccrDZWpUxCX5YWyHQaVdqHkLtMACdGLro ri8FfWnZkIml4C0XUI97XTQ= =C2Ys -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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