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Authored by manu on Sep 2 2021, 2:43 PM.
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both telnet and telnetd aren't that useful nowadays but some
might want them.
Create a FreeBSD-telnet package so users have a choice to have
them or not.

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manu requested review of this revision.Sep 2 2021, 2:43 PM
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Similar comment as another review, I wonder if we shouldn't drop telnetd entirely. But this makes sense for now.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 2 2021, 2:48 PM

Similar comment as another review, I wonder if we shouldn't drop telnetd entirely. But this makes sense for now.

Even without telnetd there will be too much bikesched if we want to remove telnet so I expect this package to be present for a long time :)

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