Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 20:34:01 +0200 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rtools were deemed almost unused 15 years ago... Message-ID: <20170620203401.82e0207a6d16d7312cd47f8f@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <3C040459-025D-4BB2-A4AC-8D180A95322B@gmail.com> References: <CAGSa5y3kVajpSSJUT9Vt0-dTwtaXMwNWvv_ELH14z68osM0UYA@mail.gmail.com> <20170620110644.lkdw2s7jnfckapnl@roberto-aw.eurocontrol.fr> <3C040459-025D-4BB2-A4AC-8D180A95322B@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:28:16 -0700 "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > > On Jun 20, 2017, at 4:06 AM, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr= > wrote: > >=20 > > According to Jeremie Le Hen on Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:25:46PM +0200: > >> Therefore, I hereby propose to remove rtools from the base system. I > >> acknowledge this will likely cause troubles for a handful of people > >> who are still relying on it for good or bad reasons. But the flipside > >> is that the attack surface of millions of FreeBSD installed out there > >> will be reduced. > >>=20 > >> The proposed roadmap is: > >> - disable from the build on head and let it soak for one month > >> - remove rtools from the base. > >>=20 > >> What do you guys think? Any preferred color for the bikeshed? :) > >=20 > > Go for it. >=20 >=20 > rsh, etc doesn?t live in ports, and there are viable uses for it still, = even though this day in age they?re greatly reduced. > - I?ll submit a new port for those that still need it. > - I?ll disable it in base; add a nice comment noting that it?s available= in ports. > -> Best case scenario, we can remove rsh from base before 12.0. > Thanks! > -Ngie There is maybe "viable uses" for vendors that haven't updated stuff in their product, but not for regular users. --=20 Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>
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