rtools were deemed almost unused 15 years ago...

[Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)]

> On Jun 20, 2017, at 4:06 AM, Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr> wrote:
> 
> According to Jeremie Le Hen on Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:25:46PM +0200:
>> Therefore, I hereby propose to remove rtools from the base system.  I
>> acknowledge this will likely cause troubles for a handful of people
>> who are still relying on it for good or bad reasons. But the flipside
>> is that the attack surface of millions of FreeBSD installed out there
>> will be reduced.
>> 
>> The proposed roadmap is:
>> - disable from the build on head and let it soak for one month
>> - remove rtools from the base.
>> 
>> What do you guys think?  Any preferred color for the bikeshed? :)
> 
> Go for it.


	rsh, etc doesn’t live in ports, and there are viable uses for it still, even though this day in age they’re greatly reduced.
	- I’ll submit a new port for those that still need it.
	- I’ll disable it in base; add a nice comment noting that it’s available in ports.
	-> Best case scenario, we can remove rsh from base before 12.0.
Thanks!
-Ngie
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