On Mit, 2003-04-02 at 15:49, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Lars Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I already see bug report for that. Some users don't want to install
> > > portmap. Don't forget that a stable distribution isn't updated every
> > > day or packages aren't added every day.
> > 
> > I remember Havoc Pennington mentioning quite recently that RedHat installs
> > fam without the portmap daemon by default (AFAICT this only makes a
> > difference for remote filesystems).  Why doesn't Debian do the same?
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=161433
> 
> Tagged wontfix.

Without giving a reason, wonderful. The paragraph cited above sounds
like it's possible.


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer


Reply via email to