pcre in base system

[David O'Brien]

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

No it won't.  We would have to document the differences in regex syntax
in the man page.  That would mean documenting functionality you only get
with a port installed.  I don't call that "self-containted".

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)