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Re: List for missing packages



On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 08:47:50PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> > Oh, and I think there's nothing wrong with using gmp2 or slang0.99.38;
> > they can coexist happily.
> 
> Because, we should break _now_ as much as possible! I have no slang0.99 
> installed and what happens: lynx depends on it! This is bad. Second
> reason is: slang0 does not have a real *so version numbering. 
> 
> It is the same reason why we shouldn't use tcl7.6 or termcap or perl4 or
> a.out.
> 
> And i think we shouldn't support libg++. It is old, only for backward and
> libstdc++ is the real choice.

I'm of the opinion that instead of breaking as much as possible now, we
should get it to work first and THEN break it.

Dan


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