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Subject: inetd's status in Debian
From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder () debian ! org>
Date: 2009-03-09 19:06:16
Message-ID: 20090309190616.GA8881 () artemis ! corp
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We're in an era where inetds are less and less a central piece of a
standard Linux distribution. Inetd was used in the past because many
servers lacked a proper standalone mode, or were too memory-hungry.
Most machines nowadays have enough memory, and most daemons provide a
standalone mode (I mean who configures apache as an inetd service ?).
Looking at my own case, my sole inetd uses are for bitlebee which
nowadays provides a standalone mode, and git-daemon because I'm too lazy
to write an init script.
Just looking at the packages requiring an inet superserver, you'll see that
it's probably that nowadays users don't need a superserver at all[0].
I'm wondering if making super servers become optionnal wouldn't be a worthy
goal for squeeze.
Note: I'm not saying we should remove super servers from Debian, I'm just
saying it's not as central as it used to be.
[0] grep-dctrl -sSource,Package -FDepends inet-superserver gives:
Package: afbackup
Source: amanda
Package: amanda-common
Source: atftp
Package: atftpd
Package: bidentd
Package: bozohttpd
Package: dbskkd-cdb
Source: fai
Package: fai-quickstart
Package: fakepop
Source: firebird2.0
Package: firebird2.0-classic
Source: firebird2.1
Package: firebird2.1-classic
Source: linux-ftpd
Package: ftpd
Source: linux-ftpd-ssl
Package: ftpd-ssl
Package: gtalk
Package: gwhois
Source: heimdal
Package: heimdal-kdc
Source: heimdal
Package: heimdal-servers
Source: heimdal
Package: heimdal-servers-x
Source: inetutils
Package: inetutils-talkd
Source: inetutils
Package: inetutils-telnetd
Source: uw-imap
Package: ipopd
Package: isdnutils
Source: isdnutils
Package: isdnvboxserver
Source: krb5
Package: krb5-ftpd
Source: krb5
Package: krb5-rsh-server
Source: krb5
Package: krb5-telnetd
Source: ldm
Package: ldm-server
Package: leafnode
Source: ltsp
Package: ltsp-server-standalone
Package: micro-httpd
Package: midentd
Package: node
Source: cernlib
Package: pawserv
Package: pidentd
Source: proftpd-dfsg
Package: proftpd-basic
Package: qpopper
Source: qpopper
Package: qpopper-drac
Source: remctl
Package: remctl-server
Source: rsh-redone
Package: rsh-redone-server
Source: netkit-rsh
Package: rsh-server
Package: rstatd
Source: netkit-rwall
Package: rwalld
Package: sendfile
Package: skksearch
Package: sn
Source: samba
Package: swat
Source: netkit-ntalk
Package: talkd
Source: netkit-telnet
Package: telnetd
Source: netkit-telnet-ssl
Package: telnetd-ssl
Source: netkit-tftp
Package: tftpd
Package: uucp
Source: uw-imap
Package: uw-imapd
Source: wipl
Package: wipl-client-inetd
Package: xfingerd
Package: xtel
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·O · Pierre Habouzit
· ·O madcoder@debian.org
OOO http://www.madism.org
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