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Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd



On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 04:52:56PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 04:16:03PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > I think the things that's stopping it from a release are the number of
> > packages ported, Marcus could correct me here if I'm right.
> 
> Personally, I couldn't care less if we release with 74% or with 86%, as long
> as all the important packages people rightfully expect to be there are
> indeed there.  I can immediately think of record locking, shared mem, and
> semaphores, as well as pthreads (which is a biggie and a showstopper, which
> is really an unfortunate combination).

The complexity is the problem, not the size. ;-)

> And I personally want to see the switch to oskit rather sooner than later,
> which adds another lot of driver related issues.

It would be nice that ext2fs was fixed too, but it's not really a
showstopper for releasing Debian GNU/Hurd.

Jeroen Dekkers
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