Re: LP for rc (udpated)

[Alex Holst <a@area51.dk>]

Quoting Mats O Jansson (maja@cntw.com):
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido wrote:
> 
> > I don't know either. But something is wrong in rc.
> > It doesn't test for portmap, syslogd, but it does test for
> > ldconfig and kbd.
> 
> Because they dont exist on all platforms. It would be stupid to check
> for binaries that should be there. 

You could consider that people apply a security policy to OpenBSD, which may
require that certain binaries be removed. I would hardly use the word
"stupid" about checking to see if non-essential binaries are available.

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