RFC: doscmd removal

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:31:43AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:23:07AM +0200, John Hay 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.
> > 
> > That might be and is the reason I asked for the reasoning behind it. One
> > reason why keeping it in the tree is good, is because it help pick API
> > changes that break it. Out in ports it might take a while to pick that
> > up and then it will be the poor user's problem. :-/ Doscmd use parts of
> > the kernel that isn't used by many other programs.
> 
> Port compile problems are typically picked up on bento within a week,
> and often within 24 hours.
> 
No, the question was rather: how often the kernel gets updated on bento?


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru at FreeBSD.org
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