From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 21 18:26:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09296 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 18:26:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA09286 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 01:26:45 GMT (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA07682; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:54:23 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199804220124.KAA07682@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) cc: Nathan Dorfman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is xtend in the base system? In-reply-to: Your message of "21 Apr 1998 16:33:00 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:54:22 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Why can't this be done as an lkm that is installed from a port/package? > Why don't we throw out the screensavers, too? And all of /usr/games, > /usr/share/misc, /sys/i386/isa/sound, /sys/i386/isa/snd... Because the screen savers anyone can use, and most people have sound cards in their machines.. The number of people with X-10 systems is pretty small AFAIK.. Well, it is in Australia anyway :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message