Re: ISC's EoL dhcp suite, including dhcpd

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Feb 4, 22:57, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
} > Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 01:30:57 +0000
} > From: Josh Moyer <JMoyer%nodomain.net@localhost>
} > 
} > ISC's dhcp suite is sadly now out of support (and had apparently
} > long been deprecated) from ISC*, but we're still shipping it.  Has
} > there been discussion about what to do about this?  ISC's
} > replacement Kia project at least has a tool to convert your
} > dhcpd.conf to something usable in Kia - important for those of us
} > with more complex dhcpd configurations.
} 
} I think we should just drop isc-dhcpd from the base system and let
} users install a DHCP server package if they want.
} 
} A DHCP _server_ (or relay) isn't necessary for the kind of system
} integration that justifies the maintenance burden of having it in the
} base system -- unlike say, a DHCP _client_, which is needed to get
} connected to the network and download packages in the first place.

     Traditionally, BSD included every server under the sun.
However, in the 80s and 90s there was nothing like pkgsrc.
Personally, I would be inclined to remove all servers from base.
Very few machines actually need to provide services to other
machines.  And, as you say, servers are easily installed from pkgsrc
(not to mention, much easier to keep up to date).  The only exception
should be things like basic network services (sshd, r*, telnetd,
etc.) along with a mail server that is only capable of local delivery
and maybe hand-off to a smart mailer (no need for postfix in base).
The other execeptions would be things like mountd/nfsd which are
tightly integrated to the OS.

}-- End of excerpt from Taylor R Campbell