rtools were deemed almost unused 15 years ago...

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:28:16 -0700
"Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> > 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

 There is maybe "viable uses" for vendors that haven't updated stuff in
their product, but not for regular users.

-- 
Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>