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Date:      Thu, 12 Dec 2019 07:39:05 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Lars Engels <lme@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>,  Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] BSD-Licensed Combinatorics library/utility
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfpmyk23w0RmYiVOHx3Qzga_H9G=uXypPgGkktwQqX_%2B%2Bg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20191212130825.GJ5400@e.0x20.net>
References:  <51AD9B50-9488-45CE-878F-EE97F6914E49@freebsd.org> <201912121119.xBCBJ2Jo017249@fire.js.berklix.net> <20191212130825.GJ5400@e.0x20.net>

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On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 6:08 AM Lars Engels <lme@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 12:19:01PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Devin Teske wrote:
> > > I???d like to announce a new utility/library for FreeBSD base
> available for review.
> > >
> > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16132 <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16132
> >
> > >
> > > Preview HTML-formatted manuals:
> > > https://fraubsd.org/doc/cmb.1.html <https://fraubsd.org/doc/cmb.1.html
> >
> > > https://fraubsd.org/doc/cmb.3.html <https://fraubsd.org/doc/cmb.3.html
> >
> >
> > ... etc.
> >
> > It cost pain & disputes forcing other code from src/ to ports/ ,
> > despite which src/ has bloated.  No more bloat please.
>
> It's no bloat:
>
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    23K Dec 12 14:04 /usr/bin/cmp
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    29K Dec 12 14:04
> /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/cmp.debug
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   1.9K Dec 12 14:04 /usr/share/man/man1/cmp.1.gz
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   151B Dec 12 14:04
> /usr/tests/usr.bin/cmp/Kyuafile
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   2.3K Dec 12 14:04
> /usr/tests/usr.bin/cmp/cmp_test
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   2.6K Dec 12 14:04
> /usr/tests/usr.bin/cmp/cmp_test2
>
>
> Given that on embedded systems debug, kyua and man pages are usually not
> installed, cmp(1) adds just 23 kB to the image.
>

Cmb and cmp are different things. Cmb is not yet in the system.

But I'm with Julian on this one: this hasn't been socialized, seems
auxiliary to our needs and could better be served as a port. There might be
good arguments to include it, but I've not yet seen them clearly
articulated yet.

Warner

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