On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 12:24:36PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > > Well, it has a priority of standard, which looks for me like it will be > installed on default installations, which includes a lot of installation > where it's not needed. And if then get's standard, this creates a > security hole which is absolutely not needed. So from a security > standpoint I would prefer that portmap get's only installed when a > package really depends on it and so I'm not sure if the current priority > is a good choice. well nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server are also priority standard, they obviously depend on portmap, so if portmap is downgraded so will nfs-* have to be, otherwise they would just drag it in anyway... downgrading nfs servers is not a bad idea IMO. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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