pcre in base system

[David O'Brien]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:54:22AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> Overall, I'd prefer to see the base system become more minimal with
> 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.

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