On Sunday 04 March 2007 03:17:39 b.n. wrote: > >>> The thing is, most other clients aren't part of system. (rsync and > >>> wget are, for portage to use, but firefox isn't, and dhcpcd or other > >>> dhcp client isn't, despite the number of folks using both, for > >>> instance.)
I'd probably be in favour of adding virtual/dhcpc to the base profile too.. ;) > >> It sounds as though you'd like the openssh package to be split into two > >> - a client and a server, analogously to, say, ntp. Is that right? > > > > A number of other distros do it this way. Just FYI; not saying it's > > better or worse. Those distros don't have USE flags. If anything it would be a USE flag. Anything else would be ridiculous. It doesn't seem that there is any configure options to disable server or client though so it seems all such a USE flag could do is remove binaries after they had been built... Hence I'll bet any request for such a USE flag would be resolved UPSTREAM (unless I've missed a configure option). While there are other providers for virtual/ssh none of them seems to have such an option. I also want to say that I don't really see how a server that isn't running can be a security issue. > It would agree a lot better with common sense (you don't need the server > if you only want a client, and vv) and Gentoo way of doing things (you > install only what you strictly want to install). > > Anyone has already filed a bug? otherwise I could do so. What makes you think you'll get a different response on bugzilla than you've gotten on this list? Chris already told you to appeal it on the gentoo-dev mailing list if you feel strongly about it. -- Bo Andresen
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