Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> said:
I was hoping we would be make the dependency on setup optional.
It is a fairly heavyweight package (700+ kb) and with lots of
not-that-useful-on-a-typical-modern-installation stuff (mail alias support,
csh profile, /etc/hosts, nfs exports, etc.). Most of this is tiny, but it
clutters /etc, which ideally would be empty, and also /etc/services is 700 kb.
/etc/services and /etc/protocols are AFAIK mandatory if you want to have
network services (either client or server). I don't think there's
anything else providing that information.
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>