Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 15:29:25 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Martin_Sch=FCtte?= <lists@mschuette.name> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improving Syslog Message-ID: <481C68B5.3020200@mschuette.name> In-Reply-To: <20080503125423.GA74315@k7.mavetju> References: <481B7ED4.3020208@mschuette.name> <1723583765.20080503123027@mail.ru> <481C5CF9.1090705@mschuette.name> <20080503125423.GA74315@k7.mavetju>
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Edwin Groothuis schrieb: >> that would prevent adoption; just like FreeBSD keeps Sendmail instead of >> adopting Postfix in its base system. > There are other reasons for this. And the way the mail system is > setup makes it is very simple to replace the default MTA with an > other MTA in the ports collection. Certainly, it was just an example. My point is only that old, slowly evolving, well-known, and tested programs (legitimately) build up a certain amount of trust and inertia. Thus making it difficult to replace them because the new program has to be so much better to justify the replacement. -- Martin
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