On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:46:13AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Here's a provisional list of packages which are standard or higher and > should not be: > fingerd not very secure for baseline > ftpd not very secure for baseline > talk rather obsolete, but debatable > talkd not very secure for baseline > telnetd not very secure for baseline I've dropped all of these to optional. (*d based on most people not really needing servers running locally, talk based on it presumably not being much use without a talkd) It might be useful to be able to get these sorts of things back using a 'unix-servers' task or similar. Since there's a 'tetex' task, I've also dropped tetex from standard to optional: people who want TeX will need to choose the task now. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
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