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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:18:33 -0800
From:      Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: List of things to move from main tree to ports (was Re:
Message-ID:  <20010217161833.D54688@lizzy.bugworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <200102162029.NAA07885@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:28:52PM %2B0000
References:  <200102161835.f1GIZOB29603@cwsys.cwsent.com> <200102162029.NAA07885@usr05.primenet.com>

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On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:28:52PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Please don't.  DJBDNS lacks significant and important functionality
> for all but trivial (one controller or single zone) uses.

Maybe you should tell Dan what functionality you think is missing, and see
what he says. There are very good reasons behind djbdns's current feature set.

> For the daemons, please do not remove them, until you have
> addressed the ability of a port to manipulate the contents of
> the inetd.conf file, so that if they are selected as part of
> an installation

Running each service under its own network connection manager (say, tcpserver)
mostly fixes this for TCP-based services.

<ponder>
Maybe Dan could be persuaded to maintain djbdns in the FreeBSD source tree.
</ponder>

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