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Re: Intent To Split: netbase



John Goerzen <jgoerzen@progenylinux.com> wrote:
>
> packages, splitting up netstd into many tiny packages, and splitting
> up netbase are all bad ideas.

If netstd weren't split up, all the plethora of finger daemons,
ident daemons and what not would've had to gone through the kind
of ritual torturing endured by packages that replaced part of the
old netstd package had.

Not to mention how painful it would've been to construct nfs-kernel-server
with nfs-user-server still part of netstd.
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