On 27 March 2014 11:30, Boris Goldberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello misc, > > Thursday, March 27, 2014, 9:14:00 AM, Jiri wrote: > > JB> Could you please elaborate why not sftp for sets (and/or > JB> for pkg_add)? > > I'll rephrase: can someone besides Theo elaborate? It was an obvious > mistake to reply to his email (to be fair, I've addressed it to misc, not > to him). > In his "long email" Theo was talking about openssl. It's my understanding > that openssh is going away from openssl, so I don't see a direct > connection. I also see that psftp (from the putty) is about 300K, and I > don't believe it has any important dependencies (kerberos could be ignored > in this case). > BTW, what is limiting the bsd.rd size? It's not for a floppy. I've tried > searching and found only a "rumor" that there is might be the size limit. > > -- > Best regards, > Boris mailto:[email protected] >
1) It's not useful. 2) It's too complicated. 3) It's impossible to fit on the install media. .... Ken
