From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 2 12:42:33 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2034C37BE42; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 12:42:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02615; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 13:42:04 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <395F9B93.E658486F@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 13:44:19 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glenn Johnson Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/isc-dhcp - Imported sources References: <20000628101529.A63423@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> <200006281721.KAA03680@john.baldwin.cx> <20000629002926.A17817@gforce.johnson.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Glenn Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:21:30AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > > 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. > > I do not think DHCP fits into the same category as a web server or > samba, etc. I do not think you can just throw a blanket over all > "servers" and say one is the same as another. > > > 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, ... Many of the above are needed on all network-connected systems; dhcpd is typically needed only on one server per DHCP "domain". If possible, we should try to install only the server executables that are useful in the general sense. Installing a dhcpd port or package isn't that difficult, is it? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message