From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Sep 18 16:57:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-144-132-234-126.nsw.bigpond.net.au [144.132.234.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A33737B412 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14272 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Sep 2001 23:57:04 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:57:04 +1000 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Kris Kennaway , Daniel O'Connor , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving UUCP to ports Message-ID: <20010919095704.A14016@gurney.reilly.home> References: <3BA6EB64.A4F9720C@mindspring.com> <20010917235356.A41864@xor.obsecurity.org> <3BA7A37E.93DA21B8@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BA7A37E.93DA21B8@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:41:50PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:41:50PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Except that most of the people in the world don't have an FTP > server, and the ISP links that they do have prevent them from > running a server at all -- and it is *precisely* these people > who need UUCP. Is there no possibility that the putative ports-based distribution could live on FreeBSD's FTP server without being part of the main tree? There's sourceforge too, unless that has strings attached that I haven't bothered to investigate. > To your point about it "not having been maintained": I prefer > to think of it as an "if it isn't broke, don't fix it". Isn't the issue that brokenness _has_ been identified? > Can we move on to talking about making sendmail and perl into > ports instead? Yes please. I realize that perl has a lot of support, and that's not really ever going to happen. Sendmail I can already turn off, so that doesn't worry me overly either. Ports dependancy issues and interactions with the main tree are always fun discussion topics, though... :-) -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message