Re: inetd and whois

[Marcus Brinkmann]

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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