[gentoo-dev] inetd/xinetd useflags

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

Time for cleanups in Gentoo/FreeBSD.. we already disabled inetd building in 
our latest ebuilds, but that isn't exactly sorted out for a reason: I don't 
know how to deal with xinetd.

Let me summarize:

inetd is the old-unix-insecure implementation that it's usually used.
xinetd is a (drop-in?) replacement for it which is now used by quite everyone 
who wants an inetd-style daemons.

Now the problem is: I don't really know how inetd/xinetd works, I just used 
them some time ago to have a cvs pserver, but that was a very long time ago.
Right now, we have a couple of packages with xinetd useflag, one with inetd 
useflag, and others which doesn't care and just installs the configuration 
file unconditionally:

flame@enterprise ~ $ grep inetd devel/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.*
devel/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc:dev-db/firebird:inetd - If you want 
inetd version instead of a superserver (daemon)
devel/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc:net-ftp/proftpd:xinetd - Enable 
support for starting from xinetd
devel/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc:net-ftp/vsftpd:xinetd - Add support 
for running under xinetd
devel/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc:net-mail/qpopper:xinetd - If you want 
inetd version instead of standalone
devel/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc:net-misc/linux-identd:xinetd - Use 
xinetd instead of the initscript
flame@enterprise ~ $ ls /etc/xinetd.d/
cups-lpd    cvspserver  svnserve    swat        telnetd

so what we should do?
Add a global xinetd useflag and a doxinetd function to add/remove the 
installed config files?
Yeah i know they aren't so big.. but "the less, the best".

-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
(Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM)