Re: [gentoo-dev] inetd/xinetd useflags

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 05 July 2005 06:17 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> inetd is the old-unix-insecure implementation that it's usually used.
> xinetd is a (drop-in?) replacement for it which is now used by quite
> everyone who wants an inetd-style daemons.

you cant technically say it's a drop in since you have to redo the config 
files, but for all intents and purposes, it is ... old school inetd suffered 
from many issues (resource management being the foremost) so xinetd was 
born ... it is the preferred inetd in Gentoo

> flame@enterprise ~ $ grep inetd devel/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.*
> devel/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc:dev-db/firebird:inetd - If you
> want inetd version instead of a superserver (daemon)

unrelated to anything in this e-mail

> so what we should do?
> Add a global xinetd useflag and a doxinetd function to add/remove the
> installed config files?
> Yeah i know they aren't so big.. but "the less, the best".

personally i'd support a doxinetd func that would check to see if xinetd is 
installed rather than go with a USE flag ...
-mike

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