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Date:      Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:53:29 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
Cc:        Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RFC: doscmd removal
Message-ID:  <20040314075329.GA3927@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040314052944.GA75355@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
References:  <20040314022615.GA21795@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20040314052944.GA75355@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>

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On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 07:29:44AM +0200, John Hay wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:26:15PM +1100, Tim Robbins wrote:
> > I plan to remove doscmd from the base system for the sole reason that it
> > is no longer useful. Any objections?
> 
> Why would you want to remove it? It is still very usefull. I use it
> regularly. The only drawback currently is that the Makefile is set
> up in such a way that it does not pick up X during a "make world",
> so after a "make world" you have to build it again to pick up X.
> Built without X it is less usefull.

This is exactly the reason why the source tree is not the right
place for doscmd.

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net


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