Re: a non gnu hurd package
--- Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:13:35PM -0700, James Morrison wrote:
> >
> Of course, sometimes there is need for a program although it does
> not
> qualify for inclusion in the Hurd CVS archive. Then we can still
> add it
> to the Debian package (as was done with the kbd/mouse translator).
>
> colortext does not provide any useful functionality yet, but will
> be an
> essential part of the Hurd package. urandom/random works but there
> is no entropy source yet, but when there is it should definitely be
> part
> of the Hurd package as well. shadowfs is a feature we also want to
> have in
> the Hurd source itself. However, shadowfs is still under
> development.
> I am sure Moritz will tell us when it is ready to be checked in.
>
> We can talk about each case individually.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcus
I realize most of these programs are not ready to be part of
the actual
hurd source. That is why I suggested a package of stuff that isn't
done,
that someone can pickup and play with.
Basically, I'm lazy and think it would be cool to go
apt-get source|install hurd-toys
and have whatever isn't done.
=====
James Morrison
University of Waterloo
Computer Science - Digital Hardware
2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org
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