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. -- Pelle