Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 10:50:30PM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> telnet:
> 1. terrible code, with many abstraction violations
> 2. something people expect to talk to their legacy machines, which
> nobody but them has access to.
> 3. common use case is served by netcat, already in base.
> 4. too much superfluous functionality.
> 
> Let's pull it out as a package, the alternative being breaking
> functionality for the four remaining users.

Actually, lots of mananged network equipements (or remote management boards)
can talk telnet.  It still has its use.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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