Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:02:07 +0000:
> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 19:37:23 Duncan wrote: > >> The thing is, most other clients aren't part of system. (rsync and >> wget are, for portage to use, but firefox isn't, and dhcpcd or other >> dhcp client isn't, despite the number of folks using both, for >> instance.) > > It sounds as though you'd like the openssh package to be split into two > - a client and a server, analogously to, say, ntp. Is that right? Well, that would be good too, security-wise, but I don't happen to need either, and as it's not necessary to the normal functioning of a Gentoo system, I fail to see why it's included in system, via virtual/ssh. Why is it special? From my perspective, it should be merged if needed just like any other package. If it's split as well (or the old client and server USE flags proposal gets implemented), great, but I just don't see why either one should be in system at all. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
