svn commit: r279603 - in head: bin/rcp usr.bin/rlogin usr.bin/rsh

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 03/05/15 06:04, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
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> S> How to connect to mpd control socket?!
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> pkg install mpd5 telnet
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> OMG, please do not make nightmare one have on Linux or Solaris.  Everything can be installed form packages but it is so inconvenient!
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> It is so nice to have most useful stuff out of the box.  Does it hurt you?  Having all these things in base is so cool, please do not make Lego constructor everyone must use.
> Disks are so large and cheap these days.

Most important, there are many scripts that do this. One of the 
wonderful things about FreeBSD is that you can write scripts that target 
'FreeBSD' and not have a dependency nightmare. Removing things from base 
breaks those scripts and makes this harder to do. In the case of telnet, 
the gain that balances this is 50K of space on the install media.

I'm not sure anyone is seriously proposing to do this, but, just in 
case, having a stable and monolithic base system is one of FreeBSD's 
best features. Please don't destroy that.
-Nathan