[gentoo-dev] netkit-telnetd

[gentoo-dev] netkit-telnetd

[Stefan Boresch]

Lately, an emerge --update system wants to install netkit-telnetd,
which somehow made it into /usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0/packages.
Any cogent reason why we need a telnetd daemon in base?

Stefan

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Re: [gentoo-dev] netkit-telnetd

[Spider]

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where else would you get a telnet application from?
And... WHY is this a DEVELOPER question?

//Spider


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On Fri, 3 May 2002 23:59:47 +0200
Stefan Boresch <stefan@mdy.univie.ac.at> wrote:

> Lately, an emerge --update system wants to install netkit-telnetd,
> which somehow made it into /usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0/packages.
> Any cogent reason why we need a telnetd daemon in base?
> 
> Stefan
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> Stefan Boresch
> Institute for Theoretical Chemistry and Structural Molecular Biology
> University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
> Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790
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Re: [gentoo-dev] netkit-telnetd

[Alexander Gretencord]

On Saturday 04 May 2002 03:20, Spider wrote:
> where else would you get a telnet application from?

From a telnet client package :) I don't like to have telnetd installed either 
tho you need not start it of course. Also if you really need a telnet client 
you can install the telnetd package anyway so there's no need to habe it in 
the base packages.

Don't ask me when I last started a telnetd it's long ago. I don't need a 
telnet client either. If I need one I can install it but thats nothing you 
_need_ to have installed especially in times of ssh. I'd better understand if 
netcat was in the base packages for a distro aimed at network pro's.


Alex

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