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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:40:13 +0100
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Summary of List of things to move from main tree to ports
Message-ID:  <20010220134013.A84722@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <200102170722.f1H7MHm20405@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:22:17PM -0800
References:  <200102170722.f1H7MHm20405@earth.backplane.com>

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According to Matt Dillon:
> 	There are fewer people screaming for UUCP to stay in the base tree
> 	then, say, people screaming for rlogind to stay in the base tree.
> 	Despite Terry's waxing poetic about UUCP's dialup capabilities,
> 	every soul I know (except maybe Terry) who has ever used UUCP in the
> 	past no longer does (and I should know:  I wrote AmigaUUCP!).

Don't forget that the USA are not alone. UUCP is still used in Europe where
comms are more expensive. Another point: when fetchmail (or anything
POP3/IMAP4 based) grows a decent multi-domain / multiusers support, we may
consider removing it.

I use it daily over TCP and having multiple domains and multiple users is
trivial compared to what you have to do with fetchmail for that.

> 	However, if those people are going to make a big deal about it,
> 	I suppose we can take the intermediate step of having a BUILD_UUCP
> 	make.conf (opt-in) option for the next few years.

I could accept that but don't remove it please.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 5.0-CURRENT #80: Sun Jun  4 22:44:19 CEST 2000


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