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On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 12:35 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 080128 Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > now that the mktemp binary has been moved out of debianutils |
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> > and integrated straight into coreutils, |
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> > perhaps it's time to ask how important this package is to everyone. |
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> > current debianutils is part of "system" and provides: |
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> > - installkernel |
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> > - run-parts |
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> > - tempfile |
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> > - savelog |
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> > - mkboot |
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> > do people consider these things critical ? |
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> > i dont know the last time i personally needed/wanted any of these ... |
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> |
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> 'equery d debianutils' gives me |
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> app-admin/sysklogd-1.4.2_pre20061230 (sys-apps/debianutils) |
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> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3-r1 (userland_GNU? sys-apps/debianutils) |
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> sys-apps/mktemp-1.5 (>=sys-apps/debianutils-2.16.2) |
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> |
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> The 2nd cb ignored, but the others seem important. |
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> I have Mktemp-1.5 installed, so what do you mean by your lines 1-2 ? |
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> Sysklogd seems to be an important pkg too. |
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savelog is used here to rotate logs from a cron job. I had a user |
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rewriting the whole script the other week so it works without either |
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perl or debianutils. (he replaced 80 lines perl with 7 lines POSIX shell |
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code using sed, awk) |
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I can create a bug on this so we get rid of both perl and debianutils |
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dependency for app-admin/sysklogd. (great for embedded) |
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-nc |
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