Re: Bug#824884: netbase: should not recommend ifupdown
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:01:05PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> About the description of the netbase package though: it currently only
> contains for text files in /etc that are seldomly used. For fun I just
> purged netbase, and it doesn't really break anything. I wouldn't call it
> "necessary infrastucture for basic TCP/IP networking" anymore.
Well, getservbyname(3) is used by 945 packages according to
codesearch.debian.net, and getprotobyname(3) by 551 packages.
Those use /etc/services and /etc/protocols by default AFAIK.
Doesn't seem that seldom to me?
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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