Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

From: Thorsten Futrega (tfutrega_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 05/29/03

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To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>

     --- Stephen Montgomery-Smith
    <stephen@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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