Re: Removing rsh-server is difficult
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 11:08:55AM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 11:57:47PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> > The task packages are designed to be removed whenever you need to
> > fiddle in more detail.
> *I* know this. The average newbie or even experienced UNIXer that just
> doesn't know debian will not.
Well, if it's not documented, then it should be.
This is certainly not a task-x-window-system problem, it's a general
issue. Any user who uses the task packages and then changes is
requirements will need to deinstall the task packages, so he needs to
know that's OK.
>
> Is rstartd really needed for task-x-window-system? rsh shouldn't be used
> anywhere anymore and if rstartd relies on it it should be thrown away as
> well.
It's standard, and some books on the X system will expect it to be
there.
Possibly if someone did the work to integrate ssh into the system,
that would solve the problem and the dependencies could be changed.
Jules
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