On Thursday 24 August 2006 22:14, kevin bailey wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2006-08-20 14:49:53, schrieb kevin bailey: > >> Why is portmap installed by default on a vanilla basic Debian Sarge > >> install? > > > > Sorry, but portmap is NOT installed... > > > > This was changed from Woody->Sarge and I was surprised too, > > that I had to install portmap my own > > > >> As far as I can see this is mainly used by by NFS and NIS - so if we're > >> not using either of these then why should it be installed. > > > > It is not - and IF it is there, it was installed as Dependency. > > > > Greetings > > Michelle Konzack > > Systemadministrator > > Tamay Dogan Network > > Debian GNU/Linux Consultant > > Hmmm... > > I don't think I installed anything which needs to have portmap - certainly > not NFS or NIS.
If you have fam installed it will pull portmap since currently fam depends on it. > Anyway, I'll check after the next vanilla install. You can check which packages depend on specific package by: 'apt-rdepends -r package' Or use dot from the graphviz package to plot a dependency graph ;-) apt-rdepends -r -d "$1" | \ dot -Gsize="256,256" -Tgif -Nfontsize=16 \ -o rdepends."$1".gif -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]