Re: Retiring lpr and lpd

Marco Moock <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:22:52 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.architechture
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 26.02.2026 02:53 Sulev-Madis Silber
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On February 26, 2026 2:10:59 AM GMT+02:00, "Dag-Erling Smørgrav"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Either we clean up lpr and it can stay in base, or we don't and it
> >doesn't belong in ports either.  I thought I had made that clear.  
> 
> 
> so what happens when people still need it and neither happens?
> 
> do people need to fish it out of dark bowels of the internet or vcs
> history? because users remain

It it is a rather sane idea to not include or provide software with
known security-relevant vulnerabilities, unless they are going to be
fixed. This is a common process to reduce the vulnerability of the
system at all. If people really have the need to run it, they need to
compile from old sources.

-- 
kind regards
Marco

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