David Douthitt wrote:
>Ewald Wasscher wrote:
>
>>I thought libnsl was the Name Switch/Service Library. So I think
>>anything that uses the system libraries to lookup users, hostnames, ips,
>>protocols etc will need it.
>>
>
>NSL appears to be the NIS Support Library; The Name Service Switch is
>supported by the libnssl (Name Service Switch Library) and all of the
>other libnss* files. The only functions in libnsl were yp_*
>functions...
>
I see, I was mistaken.
>
>
>There are some binaries (packages) that need it, but I suspect all of
>them likely use it for NIS, and I suspect that a recompile without NIS
>support will get rid of that dependency. I also suspect that as long
>as the NIS support functions are never used, then there will be no
>missing library problems and errors.
>
>The only binary I can remember that had support was cpio, but there
>was about three or four.
>
On Eigerstein2BETA (the updated one) there appears to be no binary
linked with libnsl. Perhaps it's time to remove it :-)
Ewald Wasscher
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