Bug#261771: marked as spam (there's a shocker)
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:57:00AM -0400, John D. Hendrickson wrote:
> But WAIT? What is THIS in ssh.prerm
>
> case "$1" in
> remove|deconfigure)
> update-alternatives --quiet --remove rsh /usr/bin/ssh
> update-alternatives --quiet --remove rlogin /usr/bin/slogin
> update-alternatives --quiet --remove rcp /usr/bin/scp
That removes it from /etc/alternatives/r{sh,login,cp}, if (and ONLY if)
the alternative currently references ssh... a perfectly reasonable
thing to do when removing the package. It does not, however, imply
that ssh "hijacked" the link in the first place.
I have to agree with Colin. The original report was nothing more than
a poorly-researched rant, and was essentially worthless as a bugreport.
Constructive criticism it wasn't, in other words.
> 1) ssh was fudged in as "standard" priority of install
>
> 2) ssh breaks things, like X's -display and protocols
>
> 3) replaces standard unix tools, quietly.
>
[ snipped for brevity ]
>
> Nope. Still don't like ssh. I dont' mind it being installed - as long
> as it doesn't change the software I use: GNU utils.
This can essentially be condensed into "I don't like it". Hardly a
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