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. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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