strip FreeBSD a bit

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2003.08.31 00:09:47 -0700, Colin Percival wrote:

> packaging system.  Ideally, things like sendmail and bind would be taken 
> out of the base system, and sysinstall would offer people the option of 

As stated in the archives, bind can't just be removed due to the
resolver code being used in libc.

> installing sendmail/qmail/exim/portfix/nothing and bind/djbdns/nothing; for 

Bernsteins programs can't be distributed, since we are not allowed to
distribute modified binary versions.

Besides, sysinstall in 5.x actually allows to install exim/postfix to
use instead of sendmail.  Sysinstall doesn't remove sendmail, but it's
just not used.

> that matter, most things under contrib/ are probably good candidates for 
> removing from base.
>   The problem, of course, is actually getting it done.

A lot of the things in contrib/ are important to normal operation of a
FreeBSD system, e.g. compilers, groff (for manual pages) and many more.

Well, I guess that was enough repeating of what's in the archives
multiple times already :-).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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