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Date:      Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:01:01 -0600
From:      "Justin L. Boss" <jlboss@yahoo.com>
To:        Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Making suggestions
Message-ID:  <20020228215739.18A7037B417@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020228214933.GA484@raggedclown.net>
References:  <33993602@toto.iv> <f51yf5s407.yf5@localhost.localdomain> <20020228214933.GA484@raggedclown.net>

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I'm willing to be the sacrificial lab, what list should I ask if this is the 
right list to be used for making suggestions or not?

On Thursday 28 February 2002 03:49 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:14:32PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> > If PR's are OK for suggestions, I'd have to guess that freebsd-bugs
> > would be too, since that's that place of last resort for those not
> > willing to write PRs.  But I wouldn't try discussing the suggestion
> > on freebsd-bugs; I'd take that to a subject-appropriate site, though
> > that's not always clearly obvious, and I'm still not sure what would
> > be appropriate for non-technical-list-covered enhancements; the charters
> > of -chat, -hackers, -current, -questions all seem to exclude it.
>
> That is the problem.
> If you find a bug, or have an enhancement, have ported something etc...
> then it is all fairly obvious what to do.
>
> However, consider the following (and this is not meant to start a debate
> about this on this list, I use this for illustrative purposes).
>
> There have been recent rumblings about missing KDE components on the
> ISO's. It't been discussed, and said a few times that there is only so
> much room on a CD.
> So I get to think, what is on the CD, looking at /usr/bin I see several
> things that by no stretch of the imagination could be described as
> essential. The example I gave is F77. Now if I want to suggest that a
> re-examination be made of what constitutes the base distribution, and to
> turf off out fripperies like F77 to whom do I suggest it ? In fact if I
> suggest that the time has come for a lot of things that are in /usr/bin
> to start justifying their existance who is going to listen to me ?
>
> As Gary points out above there seems to be no forum for this.
>
> To *repeat* this is not meant to start a discussion on F77... :)

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