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Date:      Sat, 16 Oct 1999 16:12:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
Cc:        James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net>, Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeSSH 
Message-ID:  <199910162012.QAA39421@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199910161549.IAA67111@cwsys.cwsent.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910131307410.60569-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net> <199910161549.IAA67111@cwsys.cwsent.com>

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<<On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 08:48:05 -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> said:

> The point is that there are probably a bunch of FreeBSD users who
> don't use the C compiler either and from their point of view, as
> ludicrous as it sounds, it too should be removed.

The right thing to point out to them is that it would cost more in
people's valuable time to do this and the disk space does (at $0.02/MB
and dropping rapidly).

There's a much better argument for segmenting out parts of the system
which are intended to be ``field-replaceable units''.

-GAWollman

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