Re: tmux(1) in base

From: Sergey Vinogradov <boogie_at_lazybytes.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:50:29 +0400
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В Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:31:19 +0200
"Svein Skogen (listmail account)" <svein-listmail_at_stillbilde.net> пишет:

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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
> 
Well, zsh(1) doesn't have perl as run, or build dependency directly.
However, autoconf, which is involved in zsh(1) build process does
depend on perl.

- -- 
wbr,
Boo
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