rtools were deemed almost unused 15 years ago...

Ollivier Robert roberto at keltia.freenix.fr
Tue Jun 20 11:06:48 UTC 2017


According to Jeremie Le Hen on Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:25:46PM +0200:
> Therefore, I hereby propose to remove rtools from the base system.  I
> acknowledge this will likely cause troubles for a handful of people
> who are still relying on it for good or bad reasons. But the flipside
> is that the attack surface of millions of FreeBSD installed out there
> will be reduced.
> 
> The proposed roadmap is:
> - disable from the build on head and let it soak for one month
> - remove rtools from the base.
> 
> What do you guys think?  Any preferred color for the bikeshed? :)

Go for it.

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