On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:14:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > "Standard" (and important) are basically defined as a "free, character > mode Unix system". Probably, this implies having telnet and telnetd > available, and being able to use NFS and so on. what about rsh, rlogin, rcp and such? those are pretty standard in many/most Unix systems. yet rsh-client and rsh-server are priority: extra. ssh is a pretty clean replacement for these utilities but ssh is not priority standard either. > Additionally, we have a more or less implicit policy that all daemons > should be run by default if they're installed. So if you don't want a > daemon running you either don't install it (or uninstall it), or change > the config files. i agree with this policy, but given this policy i think there should be as little daemons installed by default as possible. > If you want to change "standard" to not be a "free character mode > Unix system" (and thus not have telnetd or rsh or NFS or portmap), > there probably needs to be some easy way to say "hey, I'm a curmudgeon, > I want my unix system!". Maybe via a task- package of some sort? Or some > other way? I dunno if it makes sense as a `task' per se. [0] well as i said in another message nobody can agree what what a `free character mode Unix system' is anyway so it doesn't really matter. in general i am happy with the set of software installed by priority standard but would prefer not to have as much listening on the network immediatly by installing it. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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