Re: RH Taroon Beta Open Ports

[Steve Dickson <SteveD redhat com>]

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