> 1.) Do you plan to distribute several MTAs, like NetBSD currently does? Or > do you already (first check said no, but maybe I missed something)?
There are no such plans; other MTA are available in the ports tree. > 2.) Do you plan to distribute PAM in base? No. OpenBSD uses so-called ``BSD authentication'', which is in our opinion better designed than PAM, and a much less error-prone configuration. > 3.) Did anybody look close enough on TenDRA yet? I'd like to know how much > GNUism is in OpenBSDs base, building mechanism, so basicly it adds up to: > How long do we/you have to wait till TenDRA can be used? Some of us have peeked at TenDRA. This is a nice project, but unfortunately it's not going anywhere. Should OpenBSD ship with a replacement for gcc some day, it will not be TenDRA. > 3.2.) Even if the compiler/debugger/linker stuff runs on BSDLed code from > the TenDRA people, do you roughly know how much software in base is GPL/GNU, > and how much of that must be there? The src/gnu directory in the source tree contains everything which is not BSD-licensed (or similar terms). This currently consists of sendmail, perl, the toolchain, groff and a few minor things. Should better-licensed and feature-comparable replacements appear, then they would probably be used, but this is not a priority. > 4.) I saw lkm-stuff in your tree, do you want the same situation as linux has, > like that "too much" is modulized, or do you want that API for situations > where kernel mods are the only bearable solution? lkm are generally frowned upon in the OpenBSD land, and lkm support is only provided as a facility people should not depend on. Plus some architecture have addressing space limitations wrt lkms. > 5.) What do you think about devfs? Will it be there in the near or far > future? devfs has pros and cons, so far we happen to be satisfied with the current static /dev scheme. > 6.) Do you guys like X11R6? Would you remove it if $somebody comes up with > some basic window-manager-alike basing on something simple like svgalibs? > Or, rather, would you distribute that in base, too? We like X11R6, and there is no plan to remove it in favor of anything which would not at least be portable and licensed under acceptable terms. Miod
