From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23398 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2004 02:41:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 23354 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2004 02:41:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 10 Jun 2004 02:41:35 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5A2fZi5000615; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:41:35 -0400 Received: from post-office.corp.redhat.com (post-office.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.227]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i5A2fZ011820; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:41:35 -0400 Received: from greed.delorie.com (dj.cipe.redhat.com [10.0.0.222]) by post-office.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i5A2fXD19014; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:41:33 -0400 Received: from greed.delorie.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by greed.delorie.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5A2fUVq031531; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:41:30 -0400 Received: (from dj@localhost) by greed.delorie.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5A2fUML031527; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:41:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:41:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200406100241.i5A2fUML031527@greed.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: bje+dated+1087094046.bb1562@air.net.au CC: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20040610123403.A10027@mailhub.air.net.au> (message from Ben Elliston on Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:34:03 +1000) Subject: Re: top-level removal of dejagnu, expect References: <20040610092223.A1221@mailhub.air.net.au> <200406092340.i59Ne3FT028298@greed.delorie.com> <20040610101446.B3128@mailhub.air.net.au> <200406100214.i5A2Ew3P031152@greed.delorie.com> <20040610121927.A9164@mailhub.air.net.au> <200406100229.i5A2Tvv9031322@greed.delorie.com> <20040610123403.A10027@mailhub.air.net.au> X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00214.txt.bz2 > The obvious reason to remove such support is to reduce the amount of > stuff to maintain. If having top-level build support for expect and > dejagnu is important to Red Hat, can't Red Hat maintain local patches? We could, hence I said "I prefer". We have support for many packages that aren't in src (dosutils? hello? there's a huge list of packages in Makefile.def). Maintenance is a single line in Makefile.def, not really a compelling argument. A minor argument against the change is that it's not needed yet, I'd think for such a major change we'd want to do the least change needed until the change has proven itself. It seems to me that the toplevel stuff is cleanup, not prep.