Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

[Bernt Hansson]

Lars Eighner said the following on 2009-10-28 05:46:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner 
>> <luvbeastie at larseighner.com> wrote:
>>> Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting
>>> language to configure it.  Other than personal profit I cannot see why
>>> people are clinging like grim death to something this fubar.  Really,
>>> let's go past this one more time:
>>>
>>> "Sure, sendmail.cf is hard to work with so the solution is you learn 
>>> m4!"
>>>
>>> Did you look at the link he offered?  How helpful is that?
>>>
>>> Beside which, m4 is a PORT.  So if sendmail is not configurable
>>> without a port, why isn't it a port?
>>
>> Can we go back to our regular hacking, please?  m4 is not a port:
>>
>>  $ which m4
>>  /usr/bin/m4
> 
> I wonder how that happened,

Too much alcohol?

> how to fix it,

cd /usr/ports/devel/m4 && make deinstall

> and if it will bite if I leave it alone.

No one will ever know that