From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 3 13:29:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05F82106566B for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 13:29:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@mschuette.name) Received: from mail.asta.uni-potsdam.de (mail.asta.uni-potsdam.de [141.89.58.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F808FC15 for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 13:29:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@mschuette.name) Received: from localhost (mail.asta.uni-potsdam.de [141.89.58.198]) by mail.asta.uni-potsdam.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A141E5E19 for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 15:29:33 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: on mail at asta.uni-potsdam.de Received: from mail.asta.uni-potsdam.de ([141.89.58.198]) by localhost (mail.asta.uni-potsdam.de [141.89.58.198]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EMh4ZSfFB9sm for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 15:29:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.178.21] (BAA2eb1.baa.pppool.de [77.128.46.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Martin Schuette", Issuer "AStA-CA" (verified OK)) by mail.asta.uni-potsdam.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC6B1E5E0F for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 15:29:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <481C68B5.3020200@mschuette.name> Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 15:29:25 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Martin_Sch=FCtte?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org References: <481B7ED4.3020208@mschuette.name> <1723583765.20080503123027@mail.ru> <481C5CF9.1090705@mschuette.name> <20080503125423.GA74315@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20080503125423.GA74315@k7.mavetju> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Improving Syslog X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 13:29:35 -0000 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