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Re: Why were all DJB's ports removed? No more qmail?

To: Heikki Korpela <heko@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: Why were all DJB's ports removed? No more qmail?
From: Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:58:13 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: OpenBSD ports-related discussion <ports@openbsd.org>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108282000470.21883-100000@saitti.net>
Sender: owner-ports@openbsd.org
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In that case, why don't we standardize on his daemontools and ucspi-tcp
package?  It would one-up us over the NetBSD folks with their shiny
new "rc.d" toy, and everyone would love a setup that finally got rid
of inetd.conf for something more flexible and secure.  I'd be willing
to modify apache to work with daemontools svc.

I like the elegant simplicity of dispensing with getopt() in favor of
getenv() that I see throughout djb code.  I like the way he factors
things into small enough peices that its easy to hook in your own
little apps to accomplish this customization or that customization.

I wish I understood licenses better and why this isn't feasible right
now.  Best to both of you; OpenBSD and djb.

Jonathan

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Heikki Korpela wrote:
> > > In fact, why don't you just use the BSD licence ?
> > http://cr.yp.to/compatibility.html
>
> OpenBSD is not the OS with a colored panama. (Ruthlessly stolen from
> a CVS commit log.)
>
> In OpenBSD, it's more important for to have a consistent layout
> through the system, especially the ports, than to have a consistent
> layout for each package throuhgout all the systems.

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