Subject: Re: UUCP removal from OpenBSD
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/30/2001 14:12:29
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 01:06:27PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> i still use uucp.
> 
> i've been saying for years (since pkgsrc was created) that it should
> be exiled to pkgsrc.

Me too.  The idea that we can't _ever_ remove software from the NetBSD
base distribution is one of the principal factors encouraging the recent
and horrific bloat of NetBSD.  The amount of disk required for a minimal
(base+etc) distribution has _doubled_ since 1.4.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
    And now he couldn't remember when this passion had flown, leaving him so
  foolish and bewildered and astray: can any man?
						   William Styron