On 11 Mar 2000, Oleg Polyanski wrote:
>  HF> Because such things should go to pkgsrc, not the base operating system.
> 
>         Why? For example,  sendmail or  uucp are the  part of  base operating
>         system. Why  pop3d (and even imap4  daemon) should not? They both are
>         extremely wide used these days..

All these things are fine for installation, esp. big ones that not
everyone needs. While it can be argued that sendmail still falls under
that, uucp most likely doesn't and shoud be moved to pkgsrc, IMHO.

It's not an excuse, though, to put _more_ things into the system.


 - Hubert

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