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On Monday, September 19, 2011 15:34:53 Roland McGrath wrote: > > > The only precedent we have for installing /etc files is /etc/rpc. That > > > should probably be deprecated or removed from our install since all of > > > sunrpc is now deprecated. At least some distributions are using a > > > different file there, too. > > > > Gentoo also uses the stock file. in terms of not installing it, wouldn't > > that break old apps that are linked against an older glibc and thus query > > this db ? > > That's a good point. It was my thinking that TI-RPC would now be > responsible for installing this file. But I don't even know if it's used > there. And existing builds that want the file there on a system where > TI-RPC might not have been installed is a worthwhile consideration. TI-RPC seems to have rudimentary support for getrpcent() and friends. long term, i'm not sure there is a solution other than both packages install it in the respective upstreams and leave it up to the distros as to where it lives. -mike
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