On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 10:25:10AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> said: > > I was hoping we would be make the dependency on setup optional. > > It is a fairly heavyweight package (700+ kb) and with lots of > > not-that-useful-on-a-typical-modern-installation stuff (mail alias support, > > csh profile, /etc/hosts, nfs exports, etc.). Most of this is tiny, but it > > clutters /etc, which ideally would be empty, and also /etc/services is 700 > > kb. > > /etc/services and /etc/protocols are AFAIK mandatory if you want to have > network services (either client or server). I don't think there's > anything else providing that information.
getservbyname would use /etc/services, but I'm not sure how widely it is used. A lot of code just hardcodes a specific number… Local configuration for port numbers is a concept that only works if somebody synchronizes the file across machines, which is unlikely to happen. Similarly for /etc/protocols… Code would generally use a define, not resolve the protocol number from a string. I removed both files on a machine and rebooted and there are no messages or any other indiciation that this makes a difference. And in particular in the initrd, they are just not neeed. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
