From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 4 9:35:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lindt.urgle.com (lindt.urgle.com [62.49.202.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD6237B405 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:35:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mike by lindt.urgle.com with local (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15pBS5-000Aha-00; Thu, 04 Oct 2001 16:34:25 +0000 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:34:24 +0100 From: Mike Bristow To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory Message-ID: <20011004173424.A41125@lindt.urgle.com> References: <200110031936.f93JaQ8f031433@atg.aciworldwide.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110031936.f93JaQ8f031433@atg.aciworldwide.com>; from lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:36:26PM -0600 X-Rated: Need To Know, assassination, Soviet Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:36:26PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > All these "solutions" assume that everyone is wired up with IP > connectivity. The original questions was "who uses UUCP?" Me. > UUCP has many valid uses. Even today. If you don't understand the > software, that's fine with me. Just don't use your ignorance as > an excuse to dike the software out. Or more precisely, admit > you want to rip the code out because you don't understand what > it is, rather than making up specious excuses for it's removal. I support it's removal, because I think that software that is used by a tiny fraction of the userbase (and I suspect that uucp fits into that catagory) should be removed from the "core" distribution, and made into a seperate package; provided that obtaining the package and integrating it into FreeBSD is not too onerous. -- Mike Bristow, seebitwopie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message