On Thu Sep 25, 2003 at 07:59:30PM -0400, Levi Ramsey wrote: > > Hey, while we're at it, can we throw sendmail in contribs? =) > > > > (Serious about killing wu-ftpd altogether, semi-serious about sendmail) > > I think the policy should be that anything which listens on a port > should not, under any circumstances, be in contribs, as contribs are not > generally updated; I'm sure that someone will come along with a sendmail > repository and do the updates themselves.
I disagree. A lot of nice network-type software would be missing and I sure as heck don't want them all in main. What's wrong with having them in contribs? They aren't officially maintained... so what? Having them in contribs, joe sysadmin can grab the src.rpm for what he has installed, grab the new version or patch, and roll his own. It's still convenient for him to have it in contribs even if he doesn't get it via MandrakeUpdate. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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