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Re: netstd tools in the base system (was Re: What to do with /bin/perl symlink?)



On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 06:18:13PM +1000, Aaron Howell wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 09:11:45AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > Then we have two options:
> > 
> > - Remove usr/bin/ftp and usr/bin/telnet from the base system.
> > - Create a netstd-base package with those tools.
> > 
> > If nobody objects, I will choose the first option for the next
> > boot-floppies release.
> > 
> > 	Thanks,
> > --
> > Enrique Zanardi						   ezanardi@ull.es
> Then what happens to people who download the base system, install that, then have no ftp command to continue getting packages?

The should use dselect's ftp method (that method doesn't use the ftp stand-alone
client, but a perl library).

--
Enrique Zanardi						   ezanardi@ull.es


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