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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2000 01:30:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>, jkh@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.1-RELEASE will be tagged and done tonite, starting at 18:00 PDTT 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007260128340.64909-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <10693.964597308@localhost>

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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Ok, that is in -current, and I'll try to get Jordan to let me MFC it so
> > we can have tcpdump in 4.1.  However, is there any reason we can't fold
> > the crypto distribution into bin now?  Not the des or krb bits, but the
> > 'crypto' one.
> 
> Boy, I'd sure be a happy man if that were the case.  It would make
> installing FreeBSD a lot more straight-forward and secure out of the
> box.  The same could be done for the crypto sources too and we'd
> eliminate a whole sub-dialog from sysinstall.

As I already told John, I say "go for it" (and let whingers be damned :-)
The only thing to change would be a symlink asking if you want DES
passwords, defaulting to NO (in fact we may already have that now, I can't
remember) and everything from the crypto dist can be merged into bin.

Kris

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