Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc/etc
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/19/2003 08:39:20
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 07:10:34PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > So is the web. Which web server should we ship in the base?
>
> We should ship with bozo-httpd in base, in my opinion. Yes, really. It
> would be very nice to have one available by default without having to
> fiddle with pkgsrc and bozo-httpd does what we want -- simple small
> httpd without many security gaps possible. "Real" sites can build
> Apache of course.
And why do I need a web server installed *at all* on my workstation?
The same argument applies for a full-blown MTA... any "real" mail server
could build sendmail or postfix or qmail or exim from pkgsrc.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>