Re: Towards enabling rpm sysusers integration

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* Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek:

> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 10:25:10AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
>> Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>> > I was hoping we would be make the dependency on setup optional.
>> > It is a fairly heavyweight package (700+ kb) and with lots of
>> > not-that-useful-on-a-typical-modern-installation stuff (mail alias support,
>> > csh profile, /etc/hosts, nfs exports, etc.). Most of this is tiny, but it
>> > clutters /etc, which ideally would be empty, and also /etc/services is 700 kb.
>> 
>> /etc/services and /etc/protocols are AFAIK mandatory if you want to have
>> network services (either client or server).  I don't think there's
>> anything else providing that information.
>
> getservbyname would use /etc/services, but I'm not sure how widely it
> is used.

The getaddrinfo function uses it as well, to fill in the port number.

Thanks,
Florian
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