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Alec Warner posted on Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:50:52 -0800 as excerpted: |
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> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> |
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>> wrote: |
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>>> ncurses is no longer part of the system deps. in practice, this |
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>>> probably won't make a difference to most people since bash itself |
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>>> depends on ncurses, |
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>>> but it does make embedded/etc... simpler. |
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>> Hmm, I wonder how much further we'll have to go before you could use |
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>> portage to build an initramfs. :) |
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> Whatever man, look at all this bloat! |
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> virtual/ssh sys-apps/kbd sys-apps/texinfo |
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> Ok thats about all I could find ;p |
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I've wanted ssh out of @system for years, but found I had other windmills |
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to tilt at. I do have a netbook and use ssh between my workstation and |
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it, but for years I didn't, and surely, there's a lot of other gentoo |
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users to whom that applies as well. |
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I'd argue that ssh no more belongs in the system set than does xorg- |
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server. They're both at the same level of optional, or at least arguably |
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should be, on a gentoo system. |
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Of course the same applies to kbd and texinfo. All three should be |
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packages that users can pull in if they need them, just as they pull in |
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xorg-server if they need it. |
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But I've tilted enough at that windmill for now... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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