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[Scott Long]

Please go away.

Thorsten Futrega wrote:
>  --- Stephen Montgomery-Smith
> <stephen at math.missouri.edu> wrote: > Thorsten Futrega
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>- Remove GNU tar.
>>
>>
>>I really don't see a need for any version of tar to
>>be in the base system.  I 
> 
> 
> It's not needed if we have pax, and GNU tar generates
> broken tar files that can't be extracted with, e.g.
> NetBSD pax or Solaris' tar.
> 
> 
>>Shouldn't we also drop support for the earlier
>>pentium systems as well?  I think 
> 
> 
> That's certainly planned for 6.0
> 
> 
>>>- Add perl 5.8 *and* python 2.2 to base.
>>
>>I agree - perl makes a perfect replacement for tar.
> 
> 
> You've showed me in the past that you have zero
> respect
> for both the project and the community, so , please, 
> go back to your troll cave.
> 
> Thorsten
> 
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