RFC: doscmd removal

Marcel Moolenaar marcel at xcllnt.net
Sat Mar 13 23:53:30 PST 2004


On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 07:29:44AM +0200, John Hay wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:26:15PM +1100, Tim Robbins wrote:
> > I plan to remove doscmd from the base system for the sole reason that it
> > is no longer useful. Any objections?
> 
> Why would you want to remove it? It is still very usefull. I use it
> regularly. The only drawback currently is that the Makefile is set
> up in such a way that it does not pick up X during a "make world",
> so after a "make world" you have to build it again to pick up X.
> Built without X it is less usefull.

This is exactly the reason why the source tree is not the right
place for doscmd.

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