Re: DMA, not Sendmail on 14-RELEASE

On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:15:04 -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 3:05 PM Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com> wrote:
> > @OP
> >
> > Go install sendmail from ports and be on your merry way.
> 
> That's what I did but the point I was making DMA breaks the principle
> of least surprise because sendmail has been the default mailer for BSD
> since 42BSD (which when I started using BSD)

Similarly, sc has served as the inner working for the
text mode virtual terminals for decades, then vt came
along, and you could no longer get 80x25 text mode,
instead you got a "text mode" (quotes intended) with
ant-tiny letters.

Also the C shell has been the interactive shell for
decades, now it is sh that has achieved a level of
interactive-friendliness that matches bash's capabilities.
But the csh binary is still available.

For many years, CVS has been part of the system.
It no longer is. As FreeBSD now uses git, this is
the tool you're required to use.

In the future, freebsd-update will probably be gone,
as the intended goal is to manage the system with
pkg, in the same way as 3rd party software is
managed already. This is a thing to address when
it becomes reality.

As I mentioned, some things can be dealt with by
installing additional software (like sendmail from
the ports collection) and requires some fiddling
with (changed) configuration files (maybe content,
usually location). Some other things require you
to jump through hoops and still get suboptimal
results that can change into real problems with
the next big system update...



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