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Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 050421 Juha Varkki wrote: |
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>>050421 Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>>>we've had 'bc' and 'ed' around for historical reasons |
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>>>and because we've never actually tracked what packages invoke them |
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>>Do you mean /usr/bin/bc or did I miss something? |
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>>Why on earth are you taking it out? I use bc quite often actually .. |
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> surely the idea of 'system' is to provide all those basic tools |
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> which someone might need when doing sysadmin things without X . |
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> that's why Lynx is included, to allow seeking WWW help & downloading things. |
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> Ed is there because it's needed for Sed, which is useful for sysadmin; |
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> Bc has a similar usefulness. all at basic console level. |
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> as they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it: |
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> try to understand why it was done that way originally. |
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IIRC, "System" is the set of minimal packages required to get the system |
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running. Lynx is not in system ( although on the liveCD so one can |
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view/download web material while on the liveCD ). "System" has nothing |
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to do with administrating your system. Thats your job as the |
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administrator, to have all the utilities installed that you require. |
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