A proposed drastic cleanup of the telnet build.

Terry Lambert tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Thu Jun 5 05:31:02 PDT 2003


Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> Are the telnet sources really considered crypto sources?
> Yes, they use crypto functionality if compiled with the
> corresponding options, but they just USE them, they
> don't PROVIDE them.  As such, should we treat them as
> restricted?  If yes, I'd like to (please) hear why are
> they treated as such?  If not, then the solution is
> obvious, keep them under src/*/(lib)telnet(d).

I think the answer is "the better to deprecate telnet, by
making it harder to get working".  8-|.

-- Terry


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