ncftp removed from default install

[Harry Putnam]

Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com> writes:

> I agree with you, that is why I said what I said above. As I said before
> I do not understand why all the hoopla around this. Like sendmail they will
> never get rid of ftp because it is one of those legacy programs that everyone
> expects to be there and work. When I first started learning to admin *nix
> boxes the guy teaching me made me learn vi. Not because he thought vi was
> the best editor but because vi is available on every *nix machine. It is the 
> way *nix people expect a system to function. Sorry If I was not clear on this.

Another aspect here is that there are other programs that rely on
ftp.  One the comes to mind is emacs with its ange-ftp.