pcre in base system

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:37:14PM +0000, Sergey Lyubka wrote:
> So it will.
> If regex(3) will be decoupled from libc, one can remap
> libregex to pcre, for example.
> 
> > > 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.

DON'T TOP POST.

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