inetd

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Sat Sep 4 03:11:38 CDT 2004


On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 05:35:50PM +1000, Cef wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 12:49, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > We currently ship inetd in base, with all built-in services disabled and no
> > external services provided.  In this light, I don't think there is much
> > point in causing it to be installed by default on every new Ubuntu system.
> >
> > Any objections to demoting it to Supported?
> 
> The issue with doing this in Debian was that netbase depends on netkit-inetd, 
> so it'll be installed anyway. So unless you don't 
> consider /etc/services, /etc/protocols and /etc/rpc somewhat necessary to a 
> networked system, this was a no-no.

I will simply remove the dependency from netbase.  It isn't necessary for
our purposes.

-- 
 - mdz




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