Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen%sdaoden.eu@localhost>]

Greg Troxel wrote in <smuzht818gn.fsf%linuxpal.mit.edu@localhost>:
 |Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> writes:
 |
 |> 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.
 |
 |I agree.  I use it often, to see if TCP ports are open and hand-type
 |smtp or http.
 |
 |Another point is that as a BSD system, we at least used to have a
 |respect for history and tradition.  That has to have a balance - we did
 |get rid of sendmail.  But removing longstanding programs (that don't run
 |by default) because some people don't like them, as part of what feels
 |like a larger deletionist crusade, is not ok.

I like that.

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