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From: Spider <spider@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] reason for dhcpcd in system profile ?
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:43:58
Message-Id: 20030824184416.3b046b59.spider@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] reason for dhcpcd in system profile ? by Alec Berryman
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2 On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:32:22 -0500
3 Alec Berryman <alec@×××××××××.org> wrote:
4
5 > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 03:59, Spider wrote:
6 > > Shouldn't system be as close to a POSIX compliant Unix as possible?
7 > > Or perhaps LSB? If others want minimalism, let them create their
8 > > own profiles?(Its not difficult. really).
9 >
10 > Some interesting programs I found under the "Commands & Utilities"
11 > section of the LSB
12 > (http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.3.0/gLSB/gLSB.html#TOCC
13 > OMMAND):
14 >
15 > crontab
16 > egrep & fgrep
17 > lpr
18 > make
19 > man
20 > rsync
21 > tar
22 >
23 > Note that the LSB does not include bzip.
24 No, but portage does in any case ;)
25
26 But, Am I the only one who sees an advantage in moving the default
27 profiles to LSB compliance, and providing an alternated "light" one for
28 the cases that want them? (heck, if you dislike dhcpcd I'm pretty sure
29 you don't want the bloat of glibc either, go for uclibc. ;) but sarcasm
30 aside, the suggestion is serious.
31
32 //Spider
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Re: [gentoo-dev] reason for dhcpcd in system profile ? Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>