I agree. In practice, very few systems require the capabilities
offered by uuidd.
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On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 09:12:01AM -0400, David Pr??vot wrote:
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> > uuid-runtime description states it is used by libuuid:
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Le 23/12/2012 08:56, Regid Ichira a écrit :
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> It is used by libuuid as well as the uuidgen program.
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> Yet libuuid1 only recommends uuid-runtime:
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Pcakage: uuid-runtime
Version: 2.20.1-5.2
Severity: normal
uuid-runtime description states it is used by libuuid:
$ dpkg -p uuid-runtime | tail -6
The uuidd daemon is used to generate UUIDs, especially time-based
UUID???s, in a secure and guaranteed-unique fashion, even in the fac
Package: libuuid1
Version: 2.20.1-5.3
Severity: wishlist
libuuid1 recommends the uuid-runtime daemon; however, the vast majority
of installations of libuuid1 don't actually *need* uuid-runtime, since
they can generate more than enough random UUIDs without any uniqueness
issues. Please consider re
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