David T Hollis wrote:
> third party applications of our beloved customers... There are
> *probably* a few more
> applications other than NFS and NIS that need to advertise ports....
> Remember the
> RPC subsystem has been around for a very long time which means we
> really don't
> what we would be breaking by turning it off... Just because you don't
> know about
> something..... does not mean they don't exist....
Your missing the point here. No one is saying don't ship portmap or
nfs utilities. Just raising the question as to whether they should be
enabled by default.
I'm not sure how you interpreted that I want to stop ship nfs or
portmapper..... but let me
assure that is *NOT* the case... I just don't want to turn of a long
standing subsystem
that third parties my or may not depend for simply no good reason....
Steved