On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:25:56PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: > > Am 30.06.2009 um 23:09 schrieb Sam Leffler: > > >Marc Balmer wrote: > >> > >>Am 30.06.2009 um 21:07 schrieb Sam Leffler: > >> > >>>Martin Blapp wrote: > >>>>Author: mbr > >>>>Date: Tue Jun 30 18:51:22 2009 > >>>>New Revision: 195200 > >>>>URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/195200 > >>>> > >>>>Log: > >>>>Add wake, a tool to send Wake on LAN frames to hosts on a local > >>>>Ethernet network > >>>> Submitted by: Marc Balmer <m...@msys.ch> > >>>>Reviewed by: rwatson > >>>>Approved by: re > >>>> > >>> > >>>what's wrong with ports/net/wol? > >>> > >> > >>wake(8) is smaller and it is actually something needed in base. in > >>modern, ecological "green computing" environments we put the client > >>machines, like our POS terminals to sleep at night. In the > >>morning, a cronjob from the central server wakes up all machines > >>using this command. more and more systems support it, so havin a > >>wake command in base is just about right. > >> > >> > >The typical way things happen in freebsd is we promote tools from > >ports when they are deemed needed in the base system. In fact it's > >probably more important to have the tool in base remain compatible > >with what users have had in their tree (via ports). > > > >I have yet to hear a compelling argument for why wake was chosen > >over an existing tool that's been successfully used for a while. > >OTOH this isn't something that'll keep me up at night; it just seems > >like an ill-advised rush job that completely violates the intent of > >the 8.0 code freeze.. > > a compelling argument could be that wake(8) is BSD licensed while wol > found in ports/net/wol is GPL licensed and brings in a whole lot of a > whole lot of a whole lot of a whole lot of a stuff with it, when > actually, to send out Wake on LAN package, a small BSD licensed > command like wake(8) is sufficient. it is much smaller an cleaner code.
Then, add the wake program to ports. My opinion is that this better be kept in ports.
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