Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Dec 13, 10:50pm, 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.
} 
} Let's pull it out as a package, the alternative being breaking
} functionality for the four remaining users.
} 
} send hate mail my way.

     Here's your hate mail.  Stop with @#$!@$ deletenik stuff.

     Seriously, telnet is basic network functionality.  It is also
self-contained and doesn't require any maintenance.  Thus it doesn't
cause any problems for anybody doing maintenance on NetBSD.  There
is no reason to remove it.  Also, you can't be serious in claiming
that netcat can replace telnet.

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