On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Bruce J.A. Nourish wrote:
>  * Have we considered removing UUCP from the base distribution? It
>    seems to be there just for old times' sake (*duck*). We would get
>    rid of a bunch of GNU code, to boot.

Someone using UUCP would need to maintain the pkg.
I have the start of a uucp pkg somewhere...


>  * Have we considered removing r{sh,cmd,cp} from the base distribution?
>    They are of dubious security and utility, and, I think, OpenBSD has
>    already ditched them.

I object against using rsh/rcp unless that's added back to ssh.
There are cases where ssh is just too heavyweighted/has too much overhead.


>  * The man page to regex(3), circa 1994, claims that regex(3) is "an
>    alpha release with known defects." As it has been rigorously tested
>    for almost 10 years, could we remove that comment?

Um... Thomas? :)


 - Hubert

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