Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:57:45 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200709241457.45900.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <20070924142613.085c70ac@spaceman.my.domain> References: <6CBE22B2-206F-4695-889F-5630E6B9399C@dragffy.com> <499c70c0709220930p4455889bs42345eebd9b1d563@mail.gmail.com> <20070924142613.085c70ac@spaceman.my.domain>
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On Monday 24 September 2007 14:26:13 Jona Joachim wrote: > Postfix depends on PCRE which is not part of the base system. So you > would have to include that one, too. Perhaps you can build Postfix > without PCRE but I'm not sure. Yes, you can build without PCRE. You just won't have pcre tables (even though powerful, it's not a loss really). > The Sendmail source code is around 1.5MB whereas Postfix is around > 2.8MB. That's not a big difference but still, the size of a CD is > limited. The release engineering team would have to figure out if that > could be a problem. It's not the source code that matters for a release CD of *base* software, it's the binary footprint. -- Mel
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