Re: tmux(1) in base

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Sergey Vinogradov wrote:
> 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.

Wouldn't that bring back (among others) perl into the base? I seem to
remember there was some effort spent on removing that a while ago...

//Svein

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