> Again I ask: if maintenance is an issue, why would you not even > attempt to find a maintainer?
How do you "find a maintainer"? Do you run a contest on your favourite TV channel or what? Maintainers appear by themselves or they don't. Considering how long UUCP has been unmaintained, they don't in this case. > 1) Remove all the network interfaces from your system (Ethernet, > PPP, SL/IP, etc). > > 2) cd into /usr/ports and try to build UUCP. Now ask yourself, how you have installed FreeBSD on this system. > Unless you have a prepopulated /usr/ports/distfiles, it won't work. > Requiring IP connectivity to bootstrap software on a machine > that doesn't have IP connectivity is a non-starter. Yes, you can > install from the CDROM, but there will always be cases where you > can't do this (media errors, lack of CD, etc.) pkg_add freebsd-uucp.tgz If you can't do that from floppy/CD, then you can't install FreeBSD as well, so you don't have a problem. > However my underlying argument still remains that nothing is being > done to address the actual problem. I.e., people are going out of > their way to see the problem NOT get fixed. There's an issue of > principal at stake here, and I really don't like the precedent that > is being set by this move. What are *you* doing to address the problem? Are you stepping up as a maintainer? Are you willing to fix the problems with UUCP in FreeBSD as it is? How much time are you willing to contribute? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
