Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:34:18 +0000 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Erik =?ISO-8859-1?Q?N=F8rgaard?= <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, Michael, Bushkov <bushman@rsu.ru>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nss_ldap and openldap importing Message-ID: <20060720223418.0999ce59@vixen42> In-Reply-To: <44B40601.5050708@locolomo.org> References: <44AD2569.9070007@rsu.ru> <44AD4D27.3060109@FreeBSD.org> <20060707015458.GC500@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20060710224854.GC47557@dragon.NUXI.org> <20060711020031.GB3507@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <44B3E520.5030700@FreeBSD.org> <44B40601.5050708@locolomo.org>
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:11:45 +0200 Erik N=F8rgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> wrote: > Sorry, please accept my apologies and move on :-) I usually just > follow this list, but since Doug brought down this path... >=20 > Doug Barton wrote: >=20 > > IMO, this argument isn't persuasive. My personal feeling is that > > before something new gets added to the base system it needs to > > have a pretty large userbase, perhaps even a majority of our > > users. We have a very good ports system that exists to provide > > easy access to "optional" software that isn't needed by a > > majority of our users. I haven't seen any reasons why ldap > > support doesn't fall into that category. >=20 > I don't know, but separating things out could both fragment the > project and make things progress faster. >=20 > So, my thought was: How about a "base-ports"? A "base-port" should > be a software package entirely maintained by the FreeBSD team but > kept outside the base system, and must be under a BSD compatible > licence? >=20 > My list would be, basically what can be disabled in make.conf, and > some new ones: GAMES, LPR, NIS, SENDMAIL, BIND, DCHP (server), LDAP >=20 > Please don't flame me - I know that such a list would be eternally > disputed... Now there is a idea I would love to see. I don't really see a need for it to be maintained outside of the base system, but seeing the base system moved to something like that would be nice. Being able to uninstall a part of the base system would be nice as well. I personally would ride myself of sendmail.
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