Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc/etc
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Julio Merino <jmmv@menta.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/18/2003 17:31:20
On 18 Feb 2003 11:11:09 -0500
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

> > It enhances NetBSD because NetBSD will no longer have to ship *at least*
> > 2 MTAs ... we currently ship 2 because one or the other doesn't fit
> > everyone's needs, and it so happens that people update to yet
> > another MTA often anyway.
> 
> I would strongly oppose removing the MTAs from the base source, for
> the same reason we keep things like awk or vi in the base source. We
> do not, technically speaking "need" vi or awk or what have
> you. However, the system experience is made substantially better by
> having these things managed in basesrc.

Seconded. I don't like the idea of removing real MTAs from the base system.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/