Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:29:36 +1100 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: doscmd removal Message-ID: <20040314102936.GA23469@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> 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. Because MS-DOS emulation is not widely useful in 2004, at least not enough to be needed in the base system. But I have already said that I will now wait until FreeBSD 6 before considering removing doscmd, so there's no point arguing over this anymore right now. Tim
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