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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!vize!uwp From: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de (Udo Wolter) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: [FreeBSD] How about adding software in a list ? Date: 17 Feb 1994 15:34:40 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 57 Message-ID: <UWP.94Feb17163441@vize.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: vize.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi ! Yesterday I asked someone of the "core team" (Wow, I'm proud of this ! :-)) if you can add different programs from the Linux community or any other source to your package directory. He told me, that the package directory is nearly full and that you don't want to give out extra binaries from every package so people have to find and compile theirselves what they need. I agree to this position. But it's very annoying if you try and try and everytime you tried too much errors came up during compile so you have to change code etc. But sometimes you find tools which run almost at their best behaviour so you don't have to bother about compiling and errors. So I will suggest something: Let's make a list of programs which can compile without problems on FreeBSD and also put in the list the place where you found the source. So you won't have to run for programs and try to compile/install/use them. And we save lots of space. I would begin this new tradition with minicom, a nice communication utility which looks like telix from the MSDOS side and it really runs fine and much better than kermit: ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de:/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/minicom-14b.tar.gz I think you also can find it on different other Linux mirrors. Bye, Udo -- Udo Wolter INTERNET: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de, wolter@db0tui11.cs.tu-berlin.de BITNET/EARN: WOLTER@DB0TUI11