portmapper / rpcbind installed by default (was: sudo and UNIXes)

2013-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
John Hasler wrote: Bob Proulx writes: I don't think rpcbind should be priority standard these days. I wonder if it would be possible to convince people that it should be demoted to installed only as a dependency instead. Or if it is needed to learn why it is still needed. Standard

Re: portmapper / rpcbind installed by default (was: sudo and UNIXes)

2013-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: John Hasler wrote: Standard consists of packages that you would be surprised not to find on a UNIX system. But the portmapper is very closely associated with Sun RPC. If I have not installed anything in that family then I would not expect to find the portmapper