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[Nigel Metheringham]

yuliy at mobiltel.bg said:
> I think it'll be a good to have all the things needed for OpenSSH to
> work - 'out of the box'.  I mean - you get the source, compile it and
> that's enough. 

but that makes the task of source maintenance much much harder - much 
more of it, more sub-packages to either maintain yourself or track 
other people's work.  That means more bugs - or knowing the 
thoroughness of the openBSD folks, more opportunities for bugs and a 
slowed release schedule as they sort those bugs.

Far better to use a set of well known building blocks.

And since openssh is basically a openBSD package, which is then also 
distributed in a portable form, that would actually result in the 
sub-packages being integrated by the portability package builders... 
which would mean the whole package would further trail the main source.

[and should the package contain a complete libc to cater for the broken 
mess that some vendors have shipped in the past]

I think the openssh should concentrate on what they are doing well.  If 
someone else wants to build a further package with all the extra source 
set added in, fine, but its really a wasted duplication of effort.

	Nigel.

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