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Re: new portmap packages, testers wanted



On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 06:22:23PM +0100, Joerg Wendland wrote:
> Marco d'Itri, on 2004-01-19, 15:40, you wrote:
> > I looked at the package. It sucks, badly. It creates a new
> > debian-specific configuration file for no real reason, while we already
> > have the perfectly good and standard /etc/hosts.* files.
> 
> Would be some kind of update-hosts an option?

No. hosts.* is the type of configuration that cannot sensibly be done
from a package; only the local admin can know what should be put in
there.

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