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> In message <200008111945.e7BJjlj58635@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> John Hay writes:
> : I understand this, but the point that I was trying to make is that
> : FreeBSD installations are supposed to get easier and not more difficult.
> : To require that you have to get the FreeBSD source just to get a part
> : of it, is wrong. Then we should rather make it a port/package so that
> : someone doing a binary installation can just pkg_add it if they want it.
> 
> Agreed.  I don't think that the source requirement is that big a deal
> given the size of disks today.  How widely deployed is suidperl?

I don't think disk size is the issue. Lots of people just do a binary
installation. They don't even build a custom kernel... Those ones will
probably also not miss suidperl, I guess. :-)

And where and how are you going to document it? "If you want suidperl,
you have to install FreeBSD including its source, then set ... in
/etc/make.conf and then do a make world."? :-)

I don't know how widely suidperl is used. I have some scripts that use
it.

> 
> Like I said before, I'm testing patches to make suidperl, but install
> it mode 0.  Marcel thinks this is a bug, so I'll see how he defends
> this statement against what is sure to be some pointed questioning.

:-)))

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za


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