From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 8 17: 1: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B33B37B41A for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 17:01:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g4900ib5024569; Wed, 8 May 2002 20:00:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 20:00:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Chip Marshall Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20020508210030.GA53266@chocobo.cx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message