Bob Proulx wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > Standard consists of packages that you "would be surprised not to find > > on a UNIX system". > > 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.
Aha! I had forgotten about /etc/fstab. That is the first link in the chain of dependencies. man fstab In order to support nfs mounts in /etc/fstab it needs nfs-common and portmapper installed. And therefore I _had_ actually installed something, /etc/fstab, that would pull in the Sun RPC family by default. Hmm... Bob
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