Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> >* Bruno Lustosa <bruno.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >>anyway, why use old inetd at all? xinetd is way more powerful and secure!
> >
> >well, I've already been using it for over 10 years, I never had
> >serious problems with it, and has all I need. 
> >So why should I now switch to xinetd ?
> 
> It's more modern.

Ah. Interesting argument. 
Because it's quite modern (for the kids) to wear overwide pants,
there's no need to produce tight ones anylonger ?
Great.

> >Wouldn't it make more sense to let "inetd" be an virtual package 
> >which can be configured by some useflag to get either classic inetd
> >or xinet in, maybe xinet as default ?
> 
> Why? The current way is quite fine, IMO. You can easily select
> which package to install, why depend on some USE flag?

Following you line of argumentation, the virtual package "inetd"
should be dropped, since people can directly choose "xinetd".


cu
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