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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:06:12
Message-Id: 200504211306.57424.vapier@gentoo.org
1 we've had 'bc' and 'ed' around for historical reasons and because we've never
2 actually tracked what packages invoke 'bc' or 'ed' in their scripts
3
4 psm has looked into this and found that nothing else in a typical `emerge
5 system` requires these ... that means i'd like to prune them and make package
6 maintainers mention when their package needs these to build/run
7
8 thoughts ?
9 -mike
10 --
11 gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system Drake Wyrm <wyrm@×××××.com>