From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 5 21:52:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.noos.fr (aragon.noos.net [212.198.2.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C80C37B405 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 21:52:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 33029408 invoked by uid 0); 6 Oct 2001 04:52:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.231.187]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.75 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 6 Oct 2001 04:52:03 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f964q1P16237; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 06:52:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Message-Id: <200110060452.f964q1P16237@gits.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory In-Reply-To: <15293.58305.868595.82250@nomad.yogotech.com> To: Nate Williams Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 06:52:00 +0200 (CEST) Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, Mike Bristow , Lyndon Nerenberg , current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: clefevre@citeweb.net From: Cyrille Lefevre Organization: ACME X-Face: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94c (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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