Re: Many ports open by default
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:43:43PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:25:34AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > Why would you keep something around if you don't want to run it? Debian
> > makes the (correct) assumption that if you've installed something, you
> > want to run it.
>
> That's not true. inetd is depended on by the lame metapackage netbase,
> but I do not want to run inetd.
>
I completely agree; however, this is a bug in netbase. AJ obviously
disagrees (bug #92465) w/ me. :P
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