On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:30:15PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> It's sometimes useful to use kermit over a serial console
> to get software onto a remote host.
> 
> Would it be OK to add gkermit to the base system?  See
> <ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives/gku100.tar.gz> or
> pkgsrc/comms/gkermit.
> 
> >From the ANNOUNCE file in the distribution:
> 
>     G-Kermit is command-line only (no interactive commands or scripting)
>     and remote-mode only (no making connections).  It has an extremely
>     simple user interface, and implements a large subset of the Kermit
>     protocol in a small amount of highly portable code.
> 
> I propose to put the sources in gnu/dist, a reachover Makefile in
> gnu/usr.bin, install in /usr/bin/gkermit, and possibly add it to
> /rescue.
> 
> --apb (Alan Barrett)

yay!  More bloat!

More seriously: if this is available through pkgsrc, why does it need
to be in the base system?  Aren't we trying to go the other direction,
and just have sysinst install some packages?

eric