[Glibc-bsd-devel] Re: comments on the FreeBSD packages
Robert Millan
zeratul2@wanadoo.es
Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:42:23 +0000
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:21:30PM -0400, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
>
> I read some response on one of the lists, and it sounded positive. To be
> clear, I built /usr/bin/ppp, which is one of three possible ppp
> implementations. There is also mpd in the ports tree, and
> /usr/sbin/pppd. You speak of the last, and it is probably the least
> featured on FreeBSD.
Yeah, you're right. I think i'll have to accept the compromise that for
utils that are specific to FreeBSD's kernel "per-dessign", it isn't worth
porting them to GNU's libc [1].
I'm happy with whatever the default FreeBSD PPP is, then :)
[1] with the absolutely necessary exception of ufsutils
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Robert Millan