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In-Reply-To: <20000629002926.A17817@gforce.johnson.home> "from Glenn Johnson
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Glenn Johnson writes:
> > 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.
> 
> Agreed, but some would say that FreeBSD *does* ship with a lot of
> servers: sendmail, bind, sshd, rlogind, rshd, telnetd, ftpd, ntpd, nis,
> nfs, uucp, ...

Well, DHCP server (as an application) is definitely not as popular
as ftp server for example, and it's pretty far away to be used by
as many people as use sendmail/bind. Etc.

> I just do not follow your logic. The other logic I do not follow is why
> take a package that has the client and the server (isc-dhcp) and install
> the client but not the server.

Because vast majority of people do not need DHCP server.

> In any event, I really do not care much about this issue of a DHCP
> server but I do care about the apparent attitude of "If it was not in
> BSD in the 80s then we do not want it now".

I don't think it's an issue. From my perspective the thing is - don't bloat
main distribution with things that most of the people are not gonna use.
(Yes, there are some historical exceptions (uucp comes to my mind),
but eventually they are gonna go away).

> If I am misjudging this then please enlighten me.
> 
> -- 
> Glenn Johnson
> glennpj@bayouhome.net
> 

-- dima


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