Subject: re: port-i386/7547: Deleting of pcvt?
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/12/1999 10:26:08
   On 11 May 1999, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
   > > or change the "typematic" rates?  i do so hate the defaults.
   > Look for yourself! If it isn't there, you can add it. That's the
   > beauty of open source.
   
   Right, but why should we delete pcvt (which has some feature(s) people
   want), if the "new" system doesn't support these feature(s) yet? 
   After all, I see no harm in having pcvt in-tree (other than some
   code bloat).


what features?  if they are bugs they should be fixed, but what features
are missing?  pcvt should be ejected along with pccons SOON.  "code bloat"
is one reason.  the fact that if they are gone they are no longer needing
to be maintained is another better reason.  what's the point of having a
MI console driver if we keep old crap around?  espcially seeing that it
has only ever been half-integrated into NetBSD (where are all those
userland programs??)