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Date:      Wed, 8 May 2002 20:00:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Chip Marshall <chip@chocobo.cx>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020508195149.85339K-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020508210030.GA53266@chocobo.cx>

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On Wed, 8 May 2002, Chip Marshall wrote:

> On May 08, 2002, David W. Chapman Jr. sent me the following:
> > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 06:55:16PM +0000, George Cox wrote:
> > > We have mailwrapper(1).  How about perlwrapper(1)?! h0h0h0
> > 
> > mailwrapper is because FreeBSD comes with an MTA though.
> 
> Speaking of which, if we want to rip perl out of the base system, why
> not rip sendmail out too? Allow it to be an install-time option as to
> which MTA to use, be it sendmail, postfix, qmail, or whathaveyou. 

This isn't a general discussion of architecture.  This is a specific
discussion of one piece of software.  Rather than drag in the larger
decision making issue, let's make progress on this one issue and deal with
the rest later.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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