Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:24:07 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libedit replacement for libreadline Message-ID: <3B568B17.FD21F20D@mindspring.com> References: <20010716103351.A81876@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <20010716031932.A5930@xor.obsecurity.org> <p05101004b77a150da1f1@[128.113.24.47]> <20010717094027.A78232@xor.obsecurity.org> <p05101007b77a2351f9de@[128.113.24.47]> <20010717102713.A79329@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010718002343.A30891@nagual.pp.ru> <3B55B5E6.7D3659BD@mindspring.com> <3B55BAA6.79E9B9FD@FreeBSD.org> <3B55C4A5.2CD5B05A@mindspring.com> <20010718102636.A1399@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > I vote this too. We don't need stripped down libreadline under > > > > > 'libreadline' name pretend to be full version (f.e. for > > > > > autoconf, etc.) [ ... remember this sentence; it answers your question ... ] > > I'm saying "fix it both places, or it obviously is not a > > sufficient justification for a decision". > > > > Or to put it another way "if you are willing to live with > > it in one place, why not two?". > > What on earth are you talking about? I guess I need to paint a picture... The libcrypt* in /usr/lib is a symlink. It points to a "...stripped down [libcrypt] under '[libcrypt]'" that tries to "pretend to be a full version (f.e for [passwd], etc.". I should think the analogy between doing for libreadline what FreeBSD _already does_ for libcrypt should be obvious, now... So if you aren't willing to "fix" libcrypt to be the real thing under FreeBSD, now that export restrictions have been relaxed, I don't think you have any right to complain when someone does _exactly the same thing_, making libreadline* a symlink to libedit*, since your unwillingness to fix the former makes doing that "common, accepted practice". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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