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Date:      Sun, 07 Aug 2005 08:36:55 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: putting HESIOD, Appletalk and IPX on notice 
Message-ID:  <30016.1123396615@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Aug 2005 16:30:37 %2B1000." <42F5AA8D.3060201@freebsd.org> 

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In message <42F5AA8D.3060201@freebsd.org>, Tim Robbins writes:

>HESIOD should be moved out of libc and into a separate NSS/PAM module 
>even if we do decide to keep it in the base system. With HESIOD out of 
>libc, we could then split the DNS code out into a separate libresolv.
>
>The same could be done with NIS/YP, which would allow us to slim down 
>libc by moving xdr & rpc into a separate librpc, and yp into a separate 
>libyp.

Sounds like a good plan...

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