On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:01:05PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > About the description of the netbase package though: it currently only > contains for text files in /etc that are seldomly used. For fun I just > purged netbase, and it doesn't really break anything. I wouldn't call it > "necessary infrastucture for basic TCP/IP networking" anymore.
Well, getservbyname(3) is used by 945 packages according to codesearch.debian.net, and getprotobyname(3) by 551 packages. Those use /etc/services and /etc/protocols by default AFAIK. Doesn't seem that seldom to me? -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
