open-vm-tools in base

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:26 AM Steve Kargl <
sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 09:55:23AM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> >
> > There is some precedent for this.  Driver(s?) that were once a
> >  part of the tools have been moved to base already.  The VMXNET3
> > driver is an example of this.
> >
>
> There is also precedent for removing a working driver from
> base and putting it into ports.  See drm2.
>

Not the best example to cite as there's been a lot of bumps with that and
the future distribution model is unclear to me.

Warner