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Good points. My real objections were that this was a pain in packaging (installed in both client and sever), and it was called except on Debian, when the logic should be with the patching, and it should run only on known broken systems. Apparently you agree we need the script for those odd cases. It was a sop to people with old/broken systems. I think this can just go, since standard entries /etc/services are mostly a nicety. But.... My real concern is that there should be some set of install targets (values foo for which you can run 'make foo'), that files installed should be mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive, and that it be clear which sets are required for what functionality. It seems there are some files required on both client and server. So ways out are to duplicate them, with different names, or to add a install-common target, which will be required by install-client and install-server. Actually we could have install-client do install-common and install-client-only; I don't care what they are called.Received on 2005-01-25 20:21:26