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Re: Release update



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On Sunday 04 April 2004 07:15 am, Per Olofsson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 06:15 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > Really?  Why in the name of * is NFS installed by default?
>
> Historical reasons perhaps? Unix systems usually have NFS as a part of
> their standard installation, I think.
>
> If the NFS packages' priority were lowered, the same could be done
> with portmap, so that you won't get that package either unless you
> really install fam (or something else which depends on portmap). Not
> everybody uses fam.

FAM doesn't use portmap, only NFS does from what I recall.

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