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From: Drake Wyrm <wyrm@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:29:59
Message-Id: 20050422212958.GA21130@phaenix.haell.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system by Mike Frysinger
1 At 2005-04-21T13:06:57-0400, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
2 > we've had 'bc' and 'ed' around for historical reasons and because
3 > we've never actually tracked what packages invoke 'bc' or 'ed' in
4 > their scripts
5 >
6 > psm has looked into this and found that nothing else in a typical
7 > `emerge system` requires these ... that means i'd like to prune them
8 > and make package maintainers mention when their package needs these to
9 > build/run
10
11 While you're at it, get rid of nano, too. None of the packages *require*
12 it, either. That would save almost 800k! Woo!
13
14 --
15 Batou: Hey, Major... You ever hear of "human rights"?
16 Kusanagi: I understand the concept, but I've never seen it in action.
17 --Ghost in the Shell

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Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>