Re: dhc* in NetBSD 7.0

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, Hauke Fath wrote:

> At 21:27 Uhr -0700 24.3.2013, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
> >
> > > Jeff Rizzo <riz%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> > > > 1) Remove ISC DHCP from base entirely;  this would mean NetBSD 7.0 would
> > > > not ship with a DHCP server, and would have dhcpcd as the only DHCP
> > > > client in base.
> > >
> > > I would say this is the way to go.
> >
> > I am against this; I often use the dhcp server on NetBSD and I think
> > others have mentioned this as well.
>
> Quite.
>
> I often use tcsh(1) and sendmail(8) on NetBSD - why are they not in base?

I thought someone came up with a useful networking reason that required
both the server and client to get running. tcsh and sendmail aren't
required for basic connectivity/use and you shouldn't bring up dumb
examples like those.

For that matter, we could prune a lot more shells and editors. Learn ex.

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