Re: Suggestion for an altered portmap package

["W. Michael Petullo" <mike flyn org>]

> portmap has been useless on 95% on the servers I've installed, since those
> servers didn't use NFS, NIS, etc. So removing portmap is one of the rutine
> post-installation tasks for me; I bet I'm not the only one. Hence, I
> suggest that portmap _not_ be part of a "minimal install" installation.
> 
> Anyways:
> On desktop systems, I can't get rid of portmap because fam needs it.

It does not seem that gamin, fam's replacement, requires portmap.
Is this true?

-- 
Mike

:wq