From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 21 14:52: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mushi.colo.neosoft.com (mushi.colo.neosoft.com [206.109.6.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25ACF1520F for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:52:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@taronga.com) Received: (qmail 6954 invoked from network); 21 Sep 1999 21:51:59 -0000 Received: from citadel.in.taronga.com (10.0.0.43) by mushi.in.taronga.com with SMTP; 21 Sep 1999 21:51:59 -0000 Received: by citadel.in.taronga.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id D8FA2322E4; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:49:18 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: GNU GLOBAL In-Reply-To: <199909212131.RAA57782@bellsouth.net> from W Gerald Hicks at "Sep 21, 1999 05:31:04 pm" To: wghicks@bellsouth.net (W Gerald Hicks) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:49:18 -0500 (CDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990921214918.D8FA2322E4@citadel.in.taronga.com> From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Tradition counts. GLOBAL isn't quite sendmail. On the other hand, sendmail is easier to extract and isolate (there are no sendmail-specific patches to nvi, for example), and there are several alternative packages (postfix, exim, qmail, smail, etc) that one might want to *replace* sendmail with that provide basically the same interface. I have mixed feelings about the idea of trimming the "core" to exclude traditional UNIX components. On the one hand, you can take it too far... I'd hate to see FreeBSD turn into Linux... but on the other there are arguably things that really should be optional these days, like UUCP and sendmail, or that are updated externally out of sync with FreeBSD, like sendmail or bind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message