Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:26:57 +0100 (MET) From: Helge Oldach <helge.oldach@atosorigin.com> To: karsten@rohrbach.de (Karsten W. Rohrbach) Cc: raymond.j.kohler@lmco.com, gshapiro@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sendmail 8.12.2 MFC'ed Message-ID: <200203262226.XAA27664@galaxy.de.cp.philips.com> In-Reply-To: <20020326223457.B25907@mail.webmonster.de> from "Karsten W. Rohrbach" at "Mar 26, 2002 10:34:57 pm"
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Karsten W. Rohrbach: >the question is: why the hell are complex (or rather complicated) >subsystems that often stay unused still in the base distribution? it is >simply not consequent, not following the main paradigm of bsd's design, >to have subsystems like sendmail or bind in the base dist, Because they don't ...stay unused. It's just convenient to have a standard, well- and widely-known piece of software around. You may not like it but both Sendmail and BIND are the de facto standards. Period. You have all hooks to throw them away and substitute them with something different, so please don't bother the world if they don't grok your personal taste. Not another sendmail-versus-whatever discussion please... Please! Helge P.S. Get rid of vi; cat should be enough for everyone! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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