Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc/etc
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/18/2003 19:10:34
Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:03:18PM -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:
> 
>  > Email is a primary internet application. Not having it would detract from
>  > the usefulness of NetBSD. Downloading several hundred megabytes of pkgsrc
>  > just to build email is silly. And pkgsrc has a certain amount of problems
>  > when trying to use it to upgrade an application, disappearing software for
>  > one.
> 
> So is the web.  Which web server should we ship in the base?

We should ship with bozo-httpd in base, in my opinion. Yes, really. It
would be very nice to have one available by default without having to
fiddle with pkgsrc and bozo-httpd does what we want -- simple small
httpd without many security gaps possible. "Real" sites can build
Apache of course.

Perry