Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc

[Sevan Janiyan <venture37%geeklan.co.uk@localhost>]

On 13/12/2018 22:50, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> 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.

On the slower systems that we support, we avoid the lengthy (45min+)
ssh-keygen process so it's much quicker to get up and running with
things from scratch. Especially if you are testing from scratch regularly.



Sevan