From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 24 12:57:51 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485F216A417 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:57:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from sarevok.dnr.servegame.org (b83183.upc-b.chello.nl [212.83.83.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C2113C48A for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:57:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (unknown [66.230.99.27]) by sarevok.dnr.servegame.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22746B886 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:57:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A801CDEE for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:57:47 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:57:45 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <6CBE22B2-206F-4695-889F-5630E6B9399C@dragffy.com> <499c70c0709220930p4455889bs42345eebd9b1d563@mail.gmail.com> <20070924142613.085c70ac@spaceman.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <20070924142613.085c70ac@spaceman.my.domain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709241457.45900.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Subject: Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:57:51 -0000 On Monday 24 September 2007 14:26:13 Jona Joachim wrote: > Postfix depends on PCRE which is not part of the base system. So you > would have to include that one, too. Perhaps you can build Postfix > without PCRE but I'm not sure. Yes, you can build without PCRE. You just won't have pcre tables (even though powerful, it's not a loss really). > The Sendmail source code is around 1.5MB whereas Postfix is around > 2.8MB. That's not a big difference but still, the size of a CD is > limited. The release engineering team would have to figure out if that > could be a problem. It's not the source code that matters for a release CD of *base* software, it's the binary footprint. -- Mel