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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 06:39:23AM +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 07:31:35AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> > Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 08:06:16PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>=20
> > >> I'm wondering if making super servers become optionnal wouldn't be a=
 worthy
> > >> goal for squeeze.
>=20
> > > Why?  If it ain't broke, don't fix it.  Having a superserver installe=
d isn't
> > > broken.  Why should every daemon have to implement connection handlin=
g when
> > > they can offload that to the inetd?
>=20
> > > Demoting inetd from standard to optional seems to me like a reasonable
> > > release goal; that doesn't require patching lots of upstream code tha=
t works
> > > just fine the way it is already.  In fact, AFAICS it doesn't require
> > > patching any of our packages.
>=20
> > Right, isn't that the proposal: demote inetd and update-inetd to
> > optional/extra?
>=20
> Perhaps I misunderstood, but I read this as a proposal to make /use/ of
> inetd optional for the packages that currently depend on it.

That's probably because of my broken english because what luk and you
said was what I proposed: demote inetd to extra/optionnal instead of
standard. It could make space on the CDs to more useful stuff e.g.
--=20
=C2=B7O=C2=B7  Pierre Habouzit
=C2=B7=C2=B7O                                                madcoder@debia=
n.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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