On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2012 20:35:23 +0800 > lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> wrote: > > > My curiosity is that why during the full-upgrade, it's installed the > > dnet-common. Is it something important? > > I too was wondering about that just now, when a DECNet configuration > dialog popped out on my screen, during an aptitude upgrade. AFAIK, > DECNet is some old network protocol which is mostly unused nowadays. > Why would my system decide to install support for it all of a sudden? "aptitude why dnet-common" should be able to tell you why dnet-common was installed. Watch out for the dnet-common package though. DECnet requires that "the MAC addresses of all ethernet adaptors running the procotcol be set appropriately" (see setether(8)). If you've installed dnet-common, you may find that this has been done for you already. ifconfig et al should be able to put it back.
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