Deprecating base system ftpd?

[Eugene Grosbein]

06.04.2021 15:37, aventador at fastmail.fm wrote:

> Deprecating base system ftpd does seem to be a good idea, especially for FreeBSD users wanting to use their computer
> as a workstation/desktop instead of as a server. I think the argument becomes, "who is our target audience?"
> If the target audience is both server and desktop users, then minimizing the base system makes a lot of sense.

Stock ftpd is single file /usr/libexec/ftpd sized 112KBytes uncompressed (71KB compressed with ZFS lz4 online compression)
and this is less than MAXPHYS=128K in current FreeBSD releases.
Minimizing the base system makes it another kind of Linux instead of solid operating system we love.