Reasons for 64-bTT & DHCP import

Roderick van Domburg r.s.a.vandomburg at student.utwente.nl
Mon Mar 15 07:29:03 PST 2004


Hello everyone,

Thanks for all of your answers!

> > Also, I am curious why we're not importing ISC DHCP 3 in the base
> > system. Skimming over the ISC license, I don't see any direct issues.
> > Once again: don't mean to bash, just curious.
> 
> Someone has to feel the need. If it's the maintainer who feels the need,
> you don't anything else. Otherwise you need enough voices to make the
> maintainer feel the need to do it. Sometimes there are good reasons to
> not upgrade. I don't know if that applies here. I don't think so.

You don't feel there are any reasons not to or you don't feel there are any
reasons? :-)

Currently, DHCP support for sparc64 isn't exactly _broken_ (it will survive
an install) but I wouldn't go as far as saying that it earns Tier 1 support,
either...

Regards,

Roderick



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