On Apr 19, 2012 10:37 AM, "Thomas Bächler" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 18.04.2012 21:20, schrieb Eric Bélanger: > > Hi, > > > > Currently, the inetutils packages provide the old unsecure r* family > > of tools. There is currently a bug report [1] asking for the removal > > of rexec as it it particularly unsecure. As these things are old and I > > suppose everyone has moved to more secure apps like ssh/sftp, I'm > > thinking about removing all these r* tools. > > Just because they're insecure doesn't mean we shouldn't provide them. > There are probably enough people that use this, and it is their choice.
There's always the AUR... > > Also, there is another bug report [2] about removing /bin/domainname. > > This wrapper script is currently broken and users using NIS probably > > already have yp-tools installed, which provides its own > > /usr/bin/domainname. This will also fix a future conflict whenever > > we'll get rid of /bin. > > +1 > > > /usr/bin/telnet > > /usr/sbin/telnetd > > > > Any objections, comments? > > By the above argument, we should also remove telnetd. > >
