Currently, the inetutils packages provide the old unsecure r* family
of tools. There is currently a bug report [1] asking for the removal
of rexec as it it particularly unsecure. As these things are old and I
suppose everyone has moved to more secure apps like ssh/sftp, I'm
thinking about removing all these r* tools.
Also, there is another bug report [2] about removing /bin/domainname.
This wrapper script is currently broken and users using NIS probably
already have yp-tools installed, which provides its own
/usr/bin/domainname. This will also fix a future conflict whenever
we'll get rid of /bin.
In summary, I would like to remove the following binaries from inetutils: