> Um, I'm still alive but can someone explain me why this can't be a > "regular" port? Being useful to some but not the majority, no other > parts of the system depending on it, this looks like a model citizen > in the ideal ports world. :)
Because we loose control over it. There is a move to push some things out of the base system and into ports. Fine, but then how does bug fixes happen? I believe the committed that fixed the f2c problems on the Alpha really liked having the abilility to do so. For many parts of the system, I really think we need to make the optional and installable as ports, but the *maintance* of them should stay along our traditional means. -- -- David (obr...@nuxi.com -or- obr...@freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
