> I was playing with xinetd on another distro and decided that I kind of > liked it and wanted to install it onto my debian distro. > > I was a little surprised to find that I could not then remove the inetd > package. > > Does this mean that I have both 'super servers' installed at once? I have xinetd installed, but not inetd. 'apt-cache show xinetd' doesn't show any dependencies on inetd. Maybe you have another package that depends in inetd.