Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:35:58 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving UUCP to ports Message-ID: <200109182036.f8IKa7365709@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:53:57 PDT." <20010917235356.A41864@xor.obsecurity.org>
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In message <20010917235356.A41864@xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway writes: > > --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:36:20PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > In any case, you have ignored the first argument: if FreeBSD > > does not maintain UUCP for FreeBSD, who will maintain UUCP > > for FreeBSD? > > Jeez, Terry..it's times like this I think you say this kind of thing > just to be difficult. > > No-one has been maintaining UUCP in FreeBSD for the past several years > (do a quick search on open PRs), but if someone suddenly wanted to > they can maintain the port just as easily (easier, since anyone in the > world can be a port maintainer, whereas you have to be a committer to > maintain code in the base system). > > I would have thought that to be obvious. A compromise has come to mind. What if we implement your change, wrapped in ifdefs. If someone does want to allow non-privileged users to specify an alternate config file, define a flag in Makfile and rebuild. Otherwise the default would be that only root could specify an alternate config file. Anyhow, it's probably best to move it to ports anyway. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD Ministry of Management Services Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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