Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:42:57 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc newsyslog.conf Message-ID: <20020914004257.GA54568@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <3D827BC9.DA395958@bellatlantic.net> References: <200209121728.g8CHS7An013425@freefall.freebsd.org> <3D80D22F.B7BDF10E@FreeBSD.org> <20020912234740.GB99846@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020913105554.A26167@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <3D827BC9.DA395958@bellatlantic.net>
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--J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 07:59:05PM -0400, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 04:47:40PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: >=20 > > > This is a default that can be changed by the embedded community. The > > > gain is smaller log files and the ability to remove a GPL'ed binary f= rom > > > the system with out breaking things. (there are still uses of gzip, = but > > > we are one step closer...) >=20 > Why on Earth would you want to remove gzip from the base system ? > It's a well-established program by now and pretty much everyone > expects it to just be there. Removing it will break things for great > many people who will have to install gzip manually. Please > don't cause all this trouble for a stupid religious reason. Don't get upset, I'm sure he's not talking about shipping FreeBSD without a command called gzip. For example, as already mentioned in this thread OpenBSD have a compress(1) with gzip functionality via libz. Kris --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9goYQWry0BWjoQKURAsR/AJ9ysrnBdQEB4SbEKvPmk61j1FnXygCgzHdG dCi4vyfoCtzFnqBzMYKLEZE= =Mk/+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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