From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Sep 18 20:42:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-168.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AAF737B406 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 20:42:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B510566D20; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 20:42:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 20:42:11 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Terry Lambert Cc: Kris Kennaway , Daniel O'Connor , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving UUCP to ports Message-ID: <20010918204211.A54489@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3BA6EB64.A4F9720C@mindspring.com> <20010917235356.A41864@xor.obsecurity.org> <3BA7A37E.93DA21B8@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zhXaljGHf11kAtnf" 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 --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:41:50PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > In any case, you have ignored the first argument: if FreeBSD > > > does not maintain UUCP for FreeBSD, who will maintain UUCP > > > for FreeBSD? > >=20 > > Jeez, Terry..it's times like this I think you say this kind of thing > > just to be difficult. > >=20 > > 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). > >=20 > > I would have thought that to be obvious. >=20 > 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 -- What does the ability to run an FTP server have to do with anything? Are you somehow confused and think that maintaing a port (which surely would only be one person, not every UUCP user in the world) requires self-hosting of the distfile? > and it is *precisely* these people who need UUCP. How do these people get their copy of the new version of FreeBSD? Any way I can think of allows the possibility of also obtaining a copy of the UUCP package. > 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". And if it's broke... > Can we move on to talking about making sendmail and perl into > ports instead? One thing at a time. Kris --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE7qBQTWry0BWjoQKURApVWAJiQYbElUJiBbTDjGWuVo98LBl3YAJ9QvwOa REzuBwPf0OTAyw9pM85tuA== =tSHH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message