From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 27 20:18:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE4F106566B for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:18:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f171.google.com (mail-yx0-f171.google.com [209.85.210.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 579538FC1C for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:18:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe1 with SMTP id 1so99206yxe.3 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:18:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=P7lOI+7hzNrMgr87dAAwfttK8czaPEAi1M4ZeXpKdi4=; b=NuhmiO9vXY4dWtJH8F2IyYi4bqkUqJxmTQc/UePr8uRmAss9g8zzLzTiljmrUgJ11d QkUhJq0WFWs5Kmxjn+ouYkRAC1OS8OwuXFw+WYbOxFMNrNrIl11Qo6b4gm0WJbw2qoeD XLXa0yKzM9xoPKvLXIlUiOM+nVr+Fmd+nUt4M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=P77k9Op+bidPvm1ocU+MBjrDcQEXiLQst3pNH7QZDgScEcuSGvvYOIyAFcNDPfobD8 4V37h/KV+Pspvw4Jk/FQ71I8Hvq7wTz7uG/5Hr80YbfubNDQ3Lk7ou6hg4n4jYcN+IKf j/NxuA1rEnY8Mkc72owjXWZ8Xi8R34TuNk4FU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.226.13 with SMTP id y13mr16286272agg.107.1256674713420; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:18:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200910271543.39876.gnemmi@gmail.com> References: <200910271543.39876.gnemmi@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:18:33 -0400 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Gonzalo Nemmi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:18:34 -0000 2009/10/27 Gonzalo Nemmi : > 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 --