removing libreadline from base system

Max Khon fjoe at samodelkin.net
Fri Dec 2 05:57:21 UTC 2011


David,

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:55 AM, David O'Brien <obrien at freebsd.org> wrote:

If you go with (2) above, we'll still have *tons* of ports that want a
> libreadline, so we'll just end up growing a port of it and we'll wind up
> with a libreadline on the system anyway.


Then you need to define what base system is.

We have much more ports that depend on libintl or libglib2 than
libreadline. Should we add these libs to the base system too?

Also, almost all ports require gmake and autotools to be built. Should we
add them to the base system too?

Max


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