Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:22:22 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package? Message-ID: <44fx94zg4x.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200910271844.18697.gnemmi@gmail.com> (Gonzalo Nemmi's message of "Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:44:18 -0200") References: <d873d5be0910270232m45f1f1eela9a99cd2b4572cde@mail.gmail.com> <878wew7i7p.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20091027202035.GA92828@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <200910271844.18697.gnemmi@gmail.com>
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I probably should move this bikeshed to freebsd-chat... Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> writes: > On Tuesday 27 October 2009 6:20:35 pm Frank Shute wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:24:58PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> I can imagine that a lot of people do use sendmail - it's documented >> in the handbook for starters. If it was taken out and replaced with >> another MTA then there would be complaints that sendmail has been >> taken out or "replacement MTA" is the "wrong one". > > Well .. someday UFS will be replaced by ZFS .. Maybe. That's still quite a way out, and who knows what else will come along in the meantime? > .. and one day Perl just > dissapeard from base .. yet the worl kept turning, and even better .. > no one got hurt ;) I remember quite a bit of pain. It was worth it, because maintaining perl in the base was causing pain on an ongoing basis, but it was a problem for users in a number of different ways. > in the other hand, those not complaining, will probably be really > happy .. so ... So you keep saying, but I don't think there's any solid evidence. Your experience is one thing, but although I consider myself a postfix user, I have machines that run sendmail because it just worked for their purpose with no configuration at all. > Doesn't ZFS mean that you have to reconfigure (or even reinstall) your > system? No. Your old configuration works just fine if you still want to keep using it. You won't get the advantages of ZFS, but having it in FreeBSD didn't bre -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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