I will have to put fake packages in for most of these and see if that stops the error messages. It seems to be working.
-- Andrew On 25-Nov-1999 George Bonser wrote: > > Tell me about it. I had to go all over the place stamping out things like > rwhod, rsh-server, rthisd and rthatd. > > That netstd package is a major security problem. I fail to see why it > installs all that crap on installation OR on removal. I can understand a > metapackage installing a bunch of things but 1. It should be clearly > spelled out in the package description what new daemons have been added to > the meta package and 2. that REMOVING the package will cause a bunch of > stuff to be installed anyway. > > r services should, in my personal opinion, never be part of a > meta-package unless the meta package clearly shows this in its name ... > something like rservices-std would be acceptable. > > > On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> Dselect suggested the netstd package be removed, so I did this and it broke >> my >> system by removing diald. I reinstalled diald and with it came other >> packages >> containing "r" services, which I do not want. One of them, rsh-client, has >> a >> dependency problem and cannot be installed. I don't even want it, but >> apt-get >> wants to force it on me anyway. What is going on here (potato)? >> >> -- >> Andrew >> >> ----------------------------- >> GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 >> *we all live downstream* >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >> /dev/null >> >> >> > > George Bonser > > "When someone annoys you, it takes 32 muscles to frown, but it only > takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and smack them in the head." ----------------------------- GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream*
