Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Jan Kundrát" <jkt@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:28:24
Message-Id: 426C0144.8040603@flaska.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system by Alec Warner
1 Alec Warner wrote:
2 > The base-install doesn't include a lot of things I would consider
3 > essential on most systems ( log daemon, cron, mta ) yet those are not in
4 > system. That is the primary reason why we have a handbook and ask that
5 > people both read and follow it. If it's generally agreed that something
6 > is important to a system it can always be added there as a suggestion
7 > for installation besides the more...obvious things.
8
9 Well, according to handbook, the reason why those packages aren't
10 included in `emerge system` is that you can make a choice from several
11 variants (syslog-ng, sysklogd, metalog,..., dcron, fcron, vixie-cron,...).
12
13 I'm not sure if I can *easily* use editor other than nano for
14 installation from stage1.
15
16 -jkt
17
18 --
19 cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth

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