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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:13:08 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
Cc:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Rsh/Rlogin/Rcmd & friends
Message-ID:  <20000915231308.A5459@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20000915155938.W40658@radon.gryphonsoft.com>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 03:59:38PM -0500
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On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 03:59:38PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 01:31:52PM -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
> > Yet another reason why everything, not just ports, should be installed 
> > using packages.  Then install just what you want.
> 
> I don't agree that *everything* should be installed using packages.. but
> certainly some things should be.

Like the /usr/games stuff?

> > Other apps that should be in ports are NFS, NIS, sendmail (we already 
> > have qmail and postfix in ports), and possibly even inetd itself -- who 
> > needs inetd when you've got SSH.
> > 
> > If we're going to do it let's do it right the first time.

Which is, IMHO, not having to select 10^6 different items during
sysinstall. That would smell like Linux, right?

-- 
Wilko Bulte  	 					wilko@freebsd.org
							Arnhem, the Netherlands


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