netstd tools in the base system (was Re: What to do with /bin/perl symlink?)

[Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>]

On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 09:01:09PM +0200, Peter Tobias wrote:
> On Apr 26, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 02:50:49PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Currently the base system comes with that symlink, but I plan to remove
> > > > it for the next boot-floppies release. Objections?
> > > 
> > > None. Just a question: Are there more files (still) in the
> > > base system but not in any package?
> > 
> > Files from packages not in the base system: 
> > - /usr/bin/ftp and /usr/bin/telnet (from netstd, they should be moved to
> >   netbase)
> 
> No, netstd is the right place for them. netbase only provides the tools
> to configure the network (ifconfig/route/...) and to get other networking
> services up and running (inetd/portmapper).

Then we have two options:

- Remove usr/bin/ftp and usr/bin/telnet from the base system.
- Create a netstd-base package with those tools.

If nobody objects, I will choose the first option for the next
boot-floppies release.

	Thanks,
--
Enrique Zanardi						   ezanardi@ull.es


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