[Info-vax] DECUServe is a Hobbyist Chapter

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rdq39n$f4f$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) writes: 

> >> Existing OpenVMS system managers should be forced to download and
> >> install and configure telnet or ftp or DECnet separately.
> >
> >This suggestion has some merit.  VSI can say something like "For 
> >security reasons we discourage use of these apps.  But if you need them, 
> >here they are."  And don't make it hard to find and use them.  Perhaps 
> >part of the distribution, but not installed by default.
> 
> This is what many linux dialects do.  It's possible to do this easily with
> package management; you can install the parts of the system that you want
> without the parts you don't want without having to manually figure out 
> dependencies.  A day will come when VMS has integrated package management, and I
> suspect it will happen before Windows ever does.
> --scott

When installing VMS from CD, one can choose not to install DECnet.  Even 
if TCPIP is installed, nothing is configured by default.