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Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc



On 14.12.2018 06:40, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 13.12.2018 23:50, 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.

Actually telnet is used actively by modern evb !x86 boards to access
firmware console or serial port. Without naming them, this includes
high-end aarch64 servers (I used telnet to work with them).

>> 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.
>>
> 
> I'm against. telnet is useful for networking. It's used in embedded,
> virtualization (qemu, simh, ...) and some public services.
> 


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