HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon
Thorsten Futrega
tfutrega at yahoo.co.uk
Thu May 29 12:05:43 PDT 2003
--- 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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