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Re: Which task package installs gpm?



On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:00:03PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> i don't think nfs servers fall into that catagory.  ftpd and telnetd
> perhaps used to, but anymore a reasonable unix admin will say `what
> the fsck is telnetd doing on this box it should be ssh!'
> 
> of course i tend to say `what the fsck where is emacs' when i find it
> missing so let the flam^H^H^H^Hdebate begin ;-) 

Okay, that's probaby why emacs is standard. The editor wars don't worry
me - you can install and remove standard packages at your whim. It's the
potential security holes that worry me.

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And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects called the human race.
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