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Date:      Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:45:53 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        tlambert2@mindspring.com
Cc:        Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: uucp user shell and home directory
Message-ID:  <15293.58305.868595.82250@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BBD81D0.933101EC@mindspring.com>
References:  <200110031936.f93JaQ8f031433@atg.aciworldwide.com> <20011004173424.A41125@lindt.urgle.com> <3BBD81D0.933101EC@mindspring.com>

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> > 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.
> 
> perl?

Used by everyone who uses FreeBSD, possibly indirectly since many of our
tools use perl (killalll, etc..), as well as anyone building a custom
kernel.

> cpio?

Used by our install tools.

> objdump?

Used by anyone using FreeBSD to develop code.

> mount_ext2fs?

Cannot be easily cleanly removed from the tree, as it has very strong
ties to the kernel data structures.  (Unlike most userland code such as
uucp).

> vinum?

Used by lots of folks, and has the same issues as ext2fs.



Nate

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