[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.
That's not quite what he asked. He mentioned "with minimal
dependencies". Currently netbase provides a basic networking
environment by depending on several other components, and a *lot* of
packages depend on it, presumably at least partly because of this.
I think it's useful to keep this property (and the dependencies on
ifupdown, et al.) and I also think it's useful to have what Daniel is
asking for, a package that contains /etc/{services,protocols,rpc}
without sucking in all that stuff. The consequence may be that netbase
shrinks to a mere metapackage, and that seems fine too.
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