[arch-dev-public] Inetutils cleanup

[Dave Reisner]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 03:20:21PM -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently, the inetutils packages provide the old unsecure r* family
> of tools. There is currently a bug report [1] asking for the removal
> of rexec as it it particularly unsecure. As these things are old and I
> suppose everyone has moved to more secure apps like ssh/sftp, I'm
> thinking about removing all these r* tools.
> 
> Also, there is another bug report [2] about removing /bin/domainname.
> This wrapper script is currently broken and users using NIS probably
> already have yp-tools installed, which provides its own
> /usr/bin/domainname.  This will also fix a future conflict whenever
> we'll get rid of /bin.
> 
> In summary, I would like to remove the following binaries from inetutils:
> 
> /bin/domainname
> /usr/bin/rcp
> /usr/bin/rexec
> /usr/bin/rlogin
> /usr/bin/rsh
> /usr/sbin/rexecd
> /usr/sbin/rlogind
> /usr/sbin/rshd

Definite +1 here.

> The inetutils package will continue to provide the following binaries:
> 
> /bin/dnsdomainname
> /bin/hostname
> /usr/bin/ftp
> /usr/bin/hostname
> /usr/bin/talk
> /usr/bin/telnet
> /usr/sbin/ftpd
> /usr/sbin/talkd
> /usr/sbin/telnetd

Sounds good to me.

> Any objections, comments?
> 
> Eric
> 
> [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28819
> [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29529