From debian-devel Mon Mar 23 09:14:24 2009 From: Pierre Habouzit Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:14:24 +0000 To: debian-devel Subject: Please make openbsd-inetd of priority Extra. Message-Id: <20090323091424.GB23181 () artemis ! corp> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=debian-devel&m=123779968813811 Package: openbsd-inetd Version: 0.20080125-2 Tags: squeeze sid Severity: normal Following the thread on debian-devel, where people seemed to agree with such a move, could you please upload a new openbsd-inetd with its priority set to Extra instead of Standard ? Thanks. On lun, mar 09, 2009 at 07:06:16 +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > 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. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org