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Date:      Sat, 6 Oct 2001 06:52:00 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc:        tlambert2@mindspring.com, Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: uucp user shell and home directory
Message-ID:  <200110060452.f964q1P16237@gits.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <15293.58305.868595.82250@nomad.yogotech.com>

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Nate Williams wrote:
> > > 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,

IMHO, UUCP is almost as old as UNIX Systems and should be kept for
that reason. I remember me the time I use it in late 80th to send and
receive emails and to download OSS to port them under Xenix. I also
regret the time of comp.sources.unix, etc. I still use UUCP some years
ago around the birth of the popular WWW.

> > > and made into a seperate package; provided that obtaining the
> > > package and integrating it into FreeBSD is not too onerous.
[snip]
> > vinum?
> 
> Used by lots of folks, and has the same issues as ext2fs.

are you really sure they are more people using vinum than UUCP ?
not sure... I'm still thinking that UUCP is widely used for email
or news transfert.

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net

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