Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: Gentoo Developers <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:17:26
Message-Id: 20050421171733.GB18564@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system by Mike Frysinger
1 On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:06:57PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > we've had 'bc' and 'ed' around for historical reasons and because we've never
3 > actually tracked what packages invoke 'bc' or 'ed' in their scripts
4 >
5 > psm has looked into this and found that nothing else in a typical `emerge
6 > system` requires these ... that means i'd like to prune them and make package
7 > maintainers mention when their package needs these to build/run
8 +1 here, but tracking down all usages of them is going to be a pain.
9
10 I'm aware of a a two packages I maintain that make specific use of ed,
11 namely net-dns/ndu and sys-apps/tcng.
12
13 --
14 Robin Hugh Johnson
15 E-Mail : robbat2@××××××××××××××.net
16 Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2
17 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639
18 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85