Re: Proposal: move /etc/{protocol,services,rpc} to base-files

2006-02-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Anthony DeRobertis] > If there is really a problem with not being able to include > everything in netkit-data or whatever, we need an update-services > command, etc. /etc/services.d (: signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Proposal: move /etc/{protocol,services,rpc} to base-files

2006-02-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Nathanael Nerode wrote: > In fact, this would solve in a certain sense the long argument about how many > protocols/services to include in the lists: alternate packages could > Provides: netbase-data if they included any superset of the most basic list. In this way, I dare say, lies madness. No

Re: Proposal: move /etc/{protocol,services,rpc} to base-files

2006-02-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Currently there are several packages which Build-Depend on netbase just to > have /etc/protocol and /etc/services available to run tests. Unfortunately, > this means that all of netbase's dependencies also need to be installed -- > and because of bug #162581, pbuilder

Re: Proposal: move /etc/{protocol,services,rpc} to base-files

2006-02-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 03, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's not quite what he asked. He mentioned "with minimal > dependencies". Currently netbase provides a basic networking The dependencies list would be much shortened too. > I think it's useful to keep this property (and the dependencies

Re: Proposal: move /etc/{protocol,services,rpc} to base-files

2006-02-03 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Daniel Schepler] > > If you're suggesting that with a move of update-inetd then netbase > > would become more like the netbase-data I was suggesting as an > > alternative, with minimal dependencies, that would be fine with me. [Marco d'Itri] > Yes, because only the files in /etc/ would be left

Re: Proposal: move /etc/{protocol,services,rpc} to base-files

2006-02-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 03, Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're suggesting that with a move of update-inetd then netbase would > become more like the netbase-data I was suggesting as an alternative, with > minimal dependencies, that would be fine with me. Yes, because only the files in /etc/ w

Re: Proposal: move /etc/{protocol,services,rpc} to base-files

2006-02-03 Thread Daniel Schepler
Le Vendredi 03 Février 2006 13:30, Marco d'Itri a écrit : > On Feb 03, Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I'd like to propose moving those data files from netbase to > > base-files. If > > No. The correct solution is to fix netbase by moving update-inetd to > each *inetd package. >

Re: Proposal: move /etc/{protocol,services,rpc} to base-files

2006-02-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 03, Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I'd like to propose moving those data files from netbase to base-files. > If No. The correct solution is to fix netbase by moving update-inetd to each *inetd package. But aj does not want to do this until update-inetd will have been rew

Proposal: move /etc/{protocol,services,rpc} to base-files

2006-02-03 Thread Daniel Schepler
Currently there are several packages which Build-Depend on netbase just to have /etc/protocol and /etc/services available to run tests. Unfortunately, this means that all of netbase's dependencies also need to be installed -- and because of bug #162581, pbuilder can't even block inetd from star