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Date:      Sat, 03 May 2008 15:29:25 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Martin_Sch=FCtte?= <lists@mschuette.name>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Improving Syslog
Message-ID:  <481C68B5.3020200@mschuette.name>
In-Reply-To: <20080503125423.GA74315@k7.mavetju>
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Edwin Groothuis schrieb:
>> that would prevent adoption; just like FreeBSD keeps Sendmail instead of 
>> adopting Postfix in its base system.
> There are other reasons for this. And the way the mail system is
> setup makes it is very simple to replace the default MTA with an
> other MTA in the ports collection.

Certainly, it was just an example.

My point is only that old, slowly evolving, well-known, and tested 
programs (legitimately) build up a certain amount of trust and inertia. 
Thus making it difficult to replace them because the new program has to 
be so much better to justify the replacement.

-- 
Martin



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