From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 11 6:52:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB0437B931; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 06:52:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13C0S6-000LQ8-00; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:51:58 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Darren Henderson Cc: "David O'Brien" , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:45:48 -0400." Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:51:58 +0200 Message-ID: <82343.963323518@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:45:48 -0400, Darren Henderson wrote: > LPRng is available in the ports and the folks that need its functionality > aren't unduely harmed if its not in the standard distribution. Not to mention that much of its functionality relies on _other_ ports as well, so to get the whole bang shoot folks would have to install from ports anyway. I'm pretty sure that there's very little to be gained by importing LPRng into the base system, since: 1) We seem to have an active lpr maintainer again. 2) Many folks don't need the additional functionality of LPRng. 3) Many folks who need LPRng will have to install it from the ports to get all of its functionality. But I repeat myself. Forgive me my exasperation, but this whole discussion has put the cart before the horse at every step of the way, so that the cart is now so far down the horse's throat that it may as well have been shoved up its arse at the beginning. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message