From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 24 18:49:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA28769 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 18:49:37 -0800 Received: from linus.demon.co.uk (linus.demon.co.uk [158.152.10.220]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA28751 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 18:49:30 -0800 Received: (from mark@localhost) by linus.demon.co.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id CAA05369; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 02:46:46 GMT Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 02:46:46 GMT From: Mark Valentine Message-Id: <199503250246.CAA05369@linus.demon.co.uk> To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system. Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article you write: >> How about an "Advanced network services" option? Include things like >> httpd, gopher/d, archie, lynx, gated, et al. This way we would not be >> reducing the default functionality, but those of us who use FreeBSD as >> network service platforms would be quite thrilled. > >That is, in fact, almost certainly the way we'll go. Perhaps it would be worth packaging "client" and "server" stuff separately? As a dial-up 'netter, I don't have much use for httpd/gopherd/gated and friends, but ftptool and the likes are essential! (A "graphical client" package could also include a script to ncftp and install Netscape, kind of like OS/2 Warp has an icon which goes and fetches their Web browser.) Mark.