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Re: inetd and whois
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: inetd and whois |
Date: |
Sat, 3 Aug 2002 21:05:07 +0200 |
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On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 06:50:49PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> >> My opinion as a developer is that debian is not even going to
> >> consider replacing anything with inetutils until its code will be
> >> better than the other alternatives (and still be compatible with
> >> them). It's not like there are no free implementations of network
> >> daemons.
> >Sure, but netkit doesn't run on BSD or the Hurd. Inetutils already
> You may guess how many debian users actually care... A huge number of
> packages does not work with hurd, I assume hurd users someday will fix
> them and/or the kernel.
Well, certainly nobody is going to port netkit. As a matter of fact GNU
inetutils exists because Mark Kettenis (a Hurd developer) ported the BSD
network utilities to the Hurd and other systems. I think a significant
number of people understand the benefits of softwrae that is written in a
portable way, rather than being hacked together for one specific system
only. (BTW, was that the reason GNU/Linux systems switched to the GNU C
library, which was developed from scratch for the GNU/Hurd system
initially?)
Thanks,
Marcus
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- Re: inetd and whois, (continued)
- Re: inetd and whois, Jeff Bailey, 2002/08/02
- Re: inetd and whois, Marco d'Itri, 2002/08/02
- Re: inetd and whois, Jeff Bailey, 2002/08/02
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- Re: inetd and whois, Marco d'Itri, 2002/08/03
- Re: inetd and whois, Jeff Bailey, 2002/08/03
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