Re: Splitting client-server packages
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 10:14 -0500, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote:
>
> > When I upgraded ssh recently I was very annoyed to notice that the package
> > merrily popped all the symlinks I had removed from /etc/rc?.d and
> > /etc/init.d that start sshd back in again, and the thought of having to go
> > through and delete them all again really made me miffed. Since the only
> > reason I have the ssh package in is because of being a debian devver, I
> > thought it might be a good idea if packages such as this were split up into
> > two parts - client and server.
>
> Of course, you could always just convert the S links to K links and
> upgrades wouldn't touch them. :)
>
> OTOH, is there a particular reason you don't want sshd running? It gets
> swapped out if you don't use it and it a good deal more secure than
> telnetd and rlogind
I just don't like having programs running which I don't use, and files from
said packages littering my already littered system :) I might have a
billion config files, but I see no reason for adding another one that I
don't need...
Cheers
Dave
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