Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?

[Mel]

On Monday 24 September 2007 14:26:13 Jona Joachim wrote:

> Postfix depends on PCRE which is not part of the base system. So you
> would have to include that one, too. Perhaps you can build Postfix
> without PCRE but I'm not sure.

Yes, you can build without PCRE. You just won't have pcre tables (even though 
powerful, it's not a loss really).

> The Sendmail source code is around 1.5MB whereas Postfix is around
> 2.8MB. That's not a big difference but still, the size of a CD is
> limited. The release engineering team would have to figure out if that
> could be a problem.

It's not the source code that matters for a release CD of *base* software, 
it's the binary footprint.

-- 
Mel