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From:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject:
Re: [new] net/upterm
To:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:33:12 +0000

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On 2025/12/17 20:10, Pascal Stumpf wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:51:28 +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2025/12/17 19:24, Pascal Stumpf wrote:
> > > This consists of a -main subpackage for the client, and a -daemon
> > > subpackage for uptermd + YAML config file + rc script.  The rc script
> > > will take care of generating SSH host keys for the daemon.
> > 
> > there doesn't seem any benefit to splitting?
> > 
> > 
> 
> The server is just not needed in most cases, and will probably be
> deployed by not many people.  For my use case, it's typical to have only
> one server and hundreds of clients that might connect back to it.

But when it is needed, you now need to know that it's in a separate
package, which we normally only do when either the client or the server
have a bunch of extra dependencies or they are huge, not the case here.
Just seems like unnecessary friction.