From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 19:49:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1B516A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:49:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB0043D2F for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:49:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1HJnJ6A056514; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:49:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1HJnJWv056513; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:49:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:49:18 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Sergey Lyubka Message-ID: <20050217194918.GF56059@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <72c3a957050217031230598f63@mail.gmail.com> <86zmy3qmm2.wl%sf@FreeBSD.org> <72c3a957050217065223729f83@mail.gmail.com> <20050217185422.GJ57256@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20050217192822.GA85506@dragon.nuxi.com> <72c3a95705021711371c45952d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <72c3a95705021711371c45952d@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcre in base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:49:21 -0000 On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:37:14PM +0000, Sergey Lyubka wrote: > > > greater reliance on ports. An interesting approach could be to > > > break out regex(3) from libc and allow base utilities to use shared > > > libraries from ports - this would allow someone to install the pcre > > > port and have the base sed(1) use it. > > > > Uh, no. /usr/src should be self-contained. > > So it will. > If regex(3) will be decoupled from libc, one can remap > libregex to pcre, for example. No it won't. We would have to document the differences in regex syntax in the man page. That would mean documenting functionality you only get with a port installed. I don't call that "self-containted". -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)