[Info-vax] DECUServe is a Hobbyist Chapter

[Scott Dorsey]

Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>On 7/3/2020 11:03 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Existing OpenVMS system managers should be forced to download and
>> install and configure telnet or ftp or DECnet separately.
>
>This suggestion has some merit.  VSI can say something like "For 
>security reasons we discourage use of these apps.  But if you need them, 
>here they are."  And don't make it hard to find and use them.  Perhaps 
>part of the distribution, but not installed by default.

This is what many linux dialects do.  It's possible to do this easily with
package management; you can install the parts of the system that you want
without the parts you don't want without having to manually figure out 
dependencies.  A day will come when VMS has integrated package management, and I
suspect it will happen before Windows ever does.
--scott

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