Bob Proulx writes:
> And I would be surprised if my list were even close to the same list
> as other people. And there is the problem with that statement
The statement comes from the last century when UNIX systems were more
common than Linux ones and UNIX admins had firm ideas as to what
belonged
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 portmapp
John Hasler wrote:
> Bob Proulx writes:
> > I don't think rpcbind should be priority standard these days. I
> > wonder if it would be possible to convince people that it should be
> > demoted to installed only as a dependency instead. Or if it is needed
> > to learn why it is still needed.
>
> S
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