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Date:      Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:21:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/isc-dhcp - Imported sources
Message-ID:  <200006281721.KAA03680@john.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20000628101529.A63423@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov>

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On 28-Jun-00 Glenn Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:55:03AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> On 27-Jun-00 David O'Brien wrote:
>>
>> >> I would vote for pulling the server stuff into contrib too.
>> >
>> > I'd really rather dike out the client from the isc-dhcp port
>> > instead. (for those systems that have /sbin/dhclient).
>>
>> I prefer this option.  Most people don't need a DHCP server.
> 
> Just my 2 cents here but isn't FreeBSD suppose to be a server OS? So
> shouldn't a server OS have a DHCP server in the base system?

By that argument we should import the apache web server, samba, or
something similar into the system.  Being a server platform does not
mean that you have to ship with lots of servers, it means you provide
a stable, well-preforming environment on which one can run those
servers.

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