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From: "b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: Openssh really needed in desktop profiles?
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:06:38
Message-Id: 45EA2C43.3030800@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: Openssh really needed in desktop profiles? by "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ha scritto:
2 > On Saturday 03 March 2007, Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk> wrote
3 > about 'Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: Openssh really needed in desktop
4 > profiles?':
5 >> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 19:37:23 Duncan wrote:
6 >>> The thing is, most other clients aren't part of system. (rsync and
7 >>> wget are, for portage to use, but firefox isn't, and dhcpcd or other
8 >>> dhcp client isn't, despite the number of folks using both, for
9 >>> instance.)
10 >> It sounds as though you'd like the openssh package to be split into two
11 >> - a client and a server, analogously to, say, ntp. Is that right?
12 >
13 > A number of other distros do it this way. Just FYI; not saying it's better
14 > or worse.
15
16 It would agree a lot better with common sense (you don't need the server
17 if you only want a client, and vv) and Gentoo way of doing things (you
18 install only what you strictly want to install).
19
20 Anyone has already filed a bug? otherwise I could do so.
21
22 m.
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Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: Openssh really needed in desktop profiles? "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>