From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 27 20:27:49 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 B5FA4106566B for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:27:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnemmi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f178.google.com (mail-yw0-f178.google.com [209.85.211.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3EE8FC28 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh8 with SMTP id 8so95075ywh.3 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:27:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=BQBLAyJMapDOyziJNmCZyQgkYq2xO6SQkhfC86MHWes=; b=WK11k7/aCoJmaw2aG/gYBKMFm9pc8tdEtmedySeqhQ7Fyqyfew2dTJguAiZTuF2adu Bus0MNyEN4wzdevpijTUSbavhL8UfWMfH1CBdDjXWLYQea4GTvy1nqYikWqD8z/S82Zh tGGupW126cPDZwJi/7eg3dAeiK1LGLnmEGzS0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=JeHIw9SaWcLuTU1S2fTEKU4XV7ukn0PPnHUwxHDHEqcGkJKPvJv0UgieAjtYoJcSR3 zqnI2DzaWmEd4bWUcWacaMU8VTrt3n+/Yi5W5BZMJYagGZ/Q9I+aKlBXeZffRwUPtcCv EnFimiqJBNS+EFUmLZ+nR7vP5HM2bEaWFA0tA= Received: by 10.91.54.6 with SMTP id g6mr9496749agk.11.1256675267557; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:27:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.100? ([190.177.192.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm112303ywd.52.2009.10.27.13.27.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:27:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Gonzalo Nemmi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:27:44 -0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200910271543.39876.gnemmi@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910271827.44239.gnemmi@gmail.com> 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 20:27:49 -0000 On Tuesday 27 October 2009 6:18:33 pm illoai@gmail.com wrote: > 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. Developing new technologies to improve the state of any given situation=20 or problem in any given point in time is "science". This thread is not about "What programs to include by default in a=20 particular operating system". Keep slicing your bologna.