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Date:      Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:48:20 +0200
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: strip FreeBSD a bit
Message-ID:  <20030831104819.GA395@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2003.08.31 00:09:47 -0700, Colin Percival wrote:

> packaging system.  Ideally, things like sendmail and bind would be taken=
=20
> out of the base system, and sysinstall would offer people the option of=
=20

As stated in the archives, bind can't just be removed due to the
resolver code being used in libc.

> installing sendmail/qmail/exim/portfix/nothing and bind/djbdns/nothing; f=
or=20

Bernsteins programs can't be distributed, since we are not allowed to
distribute modified binary versions.

Besides, sysinstall in 5.x actually allows to install exim/postfix to
use instead of sendmail.  Sysinstall doesn't remove sendmail, but it's
just not used.

> that matter, most things under contrib/ are probably good candidates for=
=20
> removing from base.
>   The problem, of course, is actually getting it done.

A lot of the things in contrib/ are important to normal operation of a
FreeBSD system, e.g. compilers, groff (for manual pages) and many more.

Well, I guess that was enough repeating of what's in the archives
multiple times already :-).

--=20
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team

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