Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 00:12:36 -0700 (PDT) From: dima@rdy.com (Dima Ruban) To: Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/isc-dhcp - Imported sources Message-ID: <200006290712.AAA28160@sivka.rdy.com> In-Reply-To: <20000629002926.A17817@gforce.johnson.home> "from Glenn Johnson at Jun 29, 2000 00:29:26 am"
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Glenn Johnson writes: > > Being a server platform does not mean that you have to ship with lots > > of servers, it means you provide a stable, well-preforming environment > > on which one can run those servers. > > Agreed, but some would say that FreeBSD *does* ship with a lot of > servers: sendmail, bind, sshd, rlogind, rshd, telnetd, ftpd, ntpd, nis, > nfs, uucp, ... Well, DHCP server (as an application) is definitely not as popular as ftp server for example, and it's pretty far away to be used by as many people as use sendmail/bind. Etc. > I just do not follow your logic. The other logic I do not follow is why > take a package that has the client and the server (isc-dhcp) and install > the client but not the server. Because vast majority of people do not need DHCP server. > In any event, I really do not care much about this issue of a DHCP > server but I do care about the apparent attitude of "If it was not in > BSD in the 80s then we do not want it now". I don't think it's an issue. From my perspective the thing is - don't bloat main distribution with things that most of the people are not gonna use. (Yes, there are some historical exceptions (uucp comes to my mind), but eventually they are gonna go away). > If I am misjudging this then please enlighten me. > > -- > Glenn Johnson > glennpj@bayouhome.net > -- dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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