On Thursday 08 January 2009 04:51:27 Matt Harrison wrote: > RSH was abandoned years ago and I'm surprised there are any applications > still around that haven't moved to ssh.
$ equery l rsh [ Searching for package 'rsh' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] net-misc/netkit-rsh-0.17-r9 (0) $ equery d netkit-rsh [ Searching for packages depending on netkit-rsh... ] x11-apps/xsm-1.0.1 (net-misc/netkit-rsh) $ equery d xsm [ Searching for packages depending on xsm... ] x11-apps/xinit-1.0.5-r1 (!minimal? x11-apps/xsm) $ equery d xinit [ Searching for packages depending on xinit... ] kde-base/kdm-3.5.9 (x11-apps/xinit) x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6 (x11-apps/xinit) x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2 (>=x11-apps/xinit-1.0.3) In other words, you can't have X without rsh (other than a minimal X installation, perhaps). I was surprised too. -- Rgds Peter
