John Hasler wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > I don't think rpcbind should be priority standard these days. I > > wonder if it would be possible to convince people that it should be > > demoted to installed only as a dependency instead. Or if it is needed > > to learn why it is still needed. > > Standard consists of packages that you "would be surprised not to find > on a UNIX system".
Hmm... That is another statement that sounds like it says something but in reality doesn't define anything. There are many things I would be surprised not to find on a Unix system that isn't installed by default. I would be surprised not to find a C compiler and 'make'. I would be surprised not to find 'less'. Also 'at', 'ed', 'mailx', 'ssh', and 'rsync'. And I would be surprised if my list were even close to the same list as other people. And there is the problem with that statement. :-) But the portmapper is very closely associated with Sun RPC. If I have not installed anything in that family then I would not expect to find the portmapper installed. But it certainly is a valid dependency. I think it would be more appropriate to have it pulled in upon needing it as a dependency of other packages. It is already a dependency of nfs-common. I would simply stop there. Bob
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