Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:22:21 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues Message-ID: <200007111722.KAA11493@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:22:33 PDT." <20000711092233.F26861@dragon.nuxi.com>
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In message <20000711092233.F26861@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:51:58PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > 3) Many folks who need LPRng will have to install it from the ports to > > get all of its functionality. > > Then how about we rip LPR from the base system and let people install the > printing system they need from ports? This would be a huge step in the right direction. We should do the same with Sendmail, BIND, nvi, and every other component of the O/S. In short everything should be installed (or for those of us who installworld, registered) as packages, like Solaris or MVS (IBM mainframe O/S) do. Let the user decide what to install or not install. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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