BIND in the base (Was: Re: tmux(1) in base)

[Steve Kargl]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 06:11:37PM -0300, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> On 9/22/09, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> >
> >> With all due respect, I already know that .. it's pretty clear in the
> >> different manuals, hanbooks and how-ro's ... and that's exactly why I
> >> never asked how can I remove sendmail and replace it with dma .. the
> >> question was more inclined in the way: why such a heavywheight (which
> >> is what a lot of users seem to be saying, and I agree with them) when
> >> we could do just as well with dma
> >
> > So do it already. :)  A lot of people have talked about this, but no
> > one has put code where their mouth is. Create a POC and post it to
> > -arch, then we have something concrete to discuss. And please, don't
> > bother with the "But I don't want to do the work if it isn't going to
> > be accepted into the base" argument. There are way more than enough
> > people whinging about this topic that your work will have an
> > appreciative audience, which is all the reward we get around here.
> 
> Dear Doug:
> 
> Those words were just an explanation to Steve Kargl's misleading
> interpretation of my former e-mail.
> 

My interpretation was not misleading.  If anything my comment
was informative because there was no indication in your post
that you knew the history and continued maintenance of sendmail
nor did you indicate that you knew how to replace sendmail via
the Handbook's description.

-- 
Steve