Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:18:33 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package? Message-ID: <d7195cff0910271318x20912a3bxf021d0a8f1c4f684@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200910271543.39876.gnemmi@gmail.com> References: <d873d5be0910270232m45f1f1eela9a99cd2b4572cde@mail.gmail.com> <200910271543.39876.gnemmi@gmail.com>
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2009/10/27 Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com>: > On Tuesday 27 October 2009 7:32:14 am b. f. wrote: >> >It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. >> > >> >How many people actually use it? Very few. >> >Why isn't it moved to ports? >> >> Obviously, not everyone wants or needs sendmail in the base system. >> But quite a few people do use it, and many FreeBSD developers are >> happy with the status quo, so it is unlikely that sendmail will be >> removed soon. =A0But there's nothing to prevent you from disabling it >> in rc.conf(5): > > Or from switching to other BSDs in which the last word over an issue > stands in the hands of reason .. and not in the hands of status quo ... > which, by the way, never took any science a single step forwar, and on > the contrary ... did everything it could to stop it ... because > otherwise, there would be no status quo anymore or it will fall in the > hands of others. What programs to include by default in a particular operating system ain't "science", buddy, no matter how thin you slice that bologna. --=20 --
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