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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:53:09 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk bsd.libnames.mk src/lib/libmagic Makefile config.h
Message-ID:  <20040811195309.GA44709@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040810151006.GB7254@tara.freenix.org>
References:  <200408090848.i798mSZ0049967@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040810151006.GB7254@tara.freenix.org>

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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:10:06PM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to David E. O'Brien:
> >   Log:
> >   Bmake the library containing and processing the magic.
> 
> Do you foresee external usage of the library?  I mean, do you really need
> to expose libmagic to the world?  libntp/libparse are only build, not
> installed for example.

It is hard to say.  Not knowing what others will do I decided to expose
the lib.  It would not surprise me to have some future port do
'file --version' and decide it could use the lib.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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