On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:04:04 +0100 Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As written in the subject, the telnet package has an indirect > > dependency on inetd (through the netbase meta-package), but as I > > understand, the telnet client itself does not need the inetd being > > installed to work. Because of that I like to ask you, if you > > couldn't change the Depends: of telnet to the packages really > > needed from netbase. Background: I want to have the telnet client > > on a box, but I don't want an inetd to be running/installed. > Telnet depends on /etc/services, which is provided by netbase. > So you probably want to file this bug against netbase, since you may > want to have /etc/services & /etc/init.d/network but no inetd. > Feel free to close this bug or reassign it to netbase. Would it be possible to split netbase in netbase and netbase-data, with netbase being a pure metapackage and netbase-data including /etc/services etc. Than I could install the telnet client (with Depends: netbase-data), without installing an inetd, which the netbase package depends on now. -- ^^^ | Evgeni -SargentD- Golov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) d(O_o)b | PGP-Key-ID: 0xAC15B50C >-|-< | WWW: www.die-welt.net ICQ: 54116744 / \ | IRC: #sod @ irc.german-freakz.net
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