Re: tmux(1) in base

From: Sergey Vinogradov <boogie_at_lazybytes.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:20:36 +0400
В Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:26:05 +0200
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> пишет:

> Sergey Vinogradov <boogie_at_lazybytes.org> writes:
> > Despite the zsh(1) has appropriate license, it needs autotools and
> > iconv (both GPL AFAIK), so it's hard to include in the base system.
> > The things in the base system I always wondered about are sendmail
> > and bind9. These are pretty heavy, and definitely are not used in
> > every single installation. Maybe someday I'll see sendmail and
> > bind9 in ports instead of base system. And yes, I know about
> > WITHOUT_BIND= and WITHOUT_SENDMAIL= :)
> 
> 1) Even in sh mode, zsh is not sufficiently POSIX-compliant to replace
>    our /bin/sh (and I say this as the maintainer of the zsh port)
I think I've made my point unclear: I fully understand that, and I
don't propose zsh(1) replacing sh(1). I just think it would be handy to
have zsh(1) in the base system. Not replacing sh(1), but as one
more piece of software.

-- 
wbr,
Boo

Received on Wed Sep 23 2009 - 07:20:21 UTC

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