Re: inetd or xinetd

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> PS: Funnily enough `apt-get remove openbsd-inetd' says that a whole bunch of
> packages depend on it:

> Looks like bugs in the dependencies in `testing'.

I don't think they depend directly on inetd. It seems netbase depends
on openbsd-inetd, and a whole lot of packages depend on netbase:

Description: Basic TCP/IP networking system
 This package provides the necessary infrastructure for basic TCP/IP based networking.

But I wonder why netbase depends on inetd.

Regards,
Andrei
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