Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Fri, 14 Dec 2018 04:56:02 +0000
    From:        coypu%sdf.org@localhost
    Message-ID:  <20181214045601.GA12078%SDF.ORG@localhost>

  | The maintenance burden is as follows:
  |
  | - Y'all seem to think it's totally reasonable to telnet in the open
  |   internet
  |
  | This means it begs for a rewrite
  |
  | - You'd want some esoteric functionality preserved
  |
  | This means rewriting it isn't going to happen

How does any of that change if telnet were in pkgsrc ?

Except that then it would probably need a bunch more work
as pkgsrc runs on more than NetBSD.

Futther, telnet is just fine on the internet - it is, after all, the
internet's first application protocol, so it has kind of proved its
worth.  Sending passwords cleartext isn't a good idea, but that
isn't always what it is used for - many of the other older protocols
(FTP, and its offshoot SMTP come to mind) are based upon telnet
and the telnet client is useful for testing them, and as others have
said, it has many local LAN type uses (precisely because it
is supported everywhere.)

It does no harm as it is, if you don't use the client, all it does is
occupy a couple of hundred blocks (nothing), the server is not
enabled by default, and it is even smaller.

kre