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Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc



On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 22:50 +0000, 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.
> 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.

To be honest, I don't think you can pull this.  Not because telnet is
necessary but because Windows-origin users are used to think of telnet
as netcat, and rarely realizing all the dragons hidden there.  Changing
your habits is hard.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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