Re: ISC's EoL dhcp suite, including dhcpd

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> Very few machines actually need to provide services to other
> machines.

With a few exceptions, such as X and sshd.

> And, as you say, servers are easily installed from pkgsrc

Eh.  This is true only when you heatseek NetBSD itself; unlike NetBSD,
pkgsrc does not, as far as I could[%] tell, keep old versions around.

[%] It's been a while since I looked; then, pkgsrc did not provide
anything for NetBSD older than two or three versions, so I stopped
looking.  If they've resurrected old versions, I'd be delighted
(astonished, but delighted).

At present, any old NetBSD version contains all[%] servers for the
included clients - unsupported, but at least it works as well as it
ever did.  Removing servers from /usr/src would mean that, once that
NetBSD becomes old, it would be even more orphaned than it is now; once
a version falls off the old end of pkgsrc's support, there's no
apparent source for the source for it.  (Someone who anticipates the
desire can archive pkgsrc along with NetBSD.  Someone who hasn't
anticipated the need has no obvious way to recover.)

[%] Or almost all?  There may be a exception or two; iSCSI comes to
mind, but I don't recall enough details to be sure.

> The only exception[s] should be [...]

What does that leave to remove?

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