Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:49:18 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: wghicks@bellsouth.net (W Gerald Hicks) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU GLOBAL Message-ID: <19990921214918.D8FA2322E4@citadel.in.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199909212131.RAA57782@bellsouth.net> from W Gerald Hicks at "Sep 21, 1999 05:31:04 pm"
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> Tradition counts. GLOBAL isn't quite sendmail. On the other hand, sendmail is easier to extract and isolate (there are no sendmail-specific patches to nvi, for example), and there are several alternative packages (postfix, exim, qmail, smail, etc) that one might want to *replace* sendmail with that provide basically the same interface. I have mixed feelings about the idea of trimming the "core" to exclude traditional UNIX components. On the one hand, you can take it too far... I'd hate to see FreeBSD turn into Linux... but on the other there are arguably things that really should be optional these days, like UUCP and sendmail, or that are updated externally out of sync with FreeBSD, like sendmail or bind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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