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On Sunday 04 March 2007 03:17:39 b.n. wrote: |
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> >>> The thing is, most other clients aren't part of system. (rsync and |
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> >>> wget are, for portage to use, but firefox isn't, and dhcpcd or other |
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> >>> dhcp client isn't, despite the number of folks using both, for |
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> >>> instance.) |
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I'd probably be in favour of adding virtual/dhcpc to the base profile too.. ;) |
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> >> It sounds as though you'd like the openssh package to be split into two |
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> >> - a client and a server, analogously to, say, ntp. Is that right? |
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> > A number of other distros do it this way. Just FYI; not saying it's |
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> > better or worse. |
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Those distros don't have USE flags. If anything it would be a USE flag. |
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Anything else would be ridiculous. It doesn't seem that there is any |
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configure options to disable server or client though so it seems all such a |
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USE flag could do is remove binaries after they had been built... |
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Hence I'll bet any request for such a USE flag would be resolved UPSTREAM |
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(unless I've missed a configure option). While there are other providers for |
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virtual/ssh none of them seems to have such an option. |
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I also want to say that I don't really see how a server that isn't running can |
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be a security issue. |
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> It would agree a lot better with common sense (you don't need the server |
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> if you only want a client, and vv) and Gentoo way of doing things (you |
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> install only what you strictly want to install). |
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> Anyone has already filed a bug? otherwise I could do so. |
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What makes you think you'll get a different response on bugzilla than you've |
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gotten on this list? Chris already told you to appeal it on the gentoo-dev |
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mailing list if you feel strongly about it. |
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Bo Andresen |
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