* Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: > 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.
The getaddrinfo function uses it as well, to fill in the port number. Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ 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
