Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system

[Philip Webb]

050421 Juha Varkki wrote:
> 050421 Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> we've had 'bc' and 'ed' around for historical reasons
>> and because we've never actually tracked what packages invoke them
> Do you mean /usr/bin/bc or did I miss something?
> Why on earth are you taking it out?  I use bc quite often actually ..

surely the idea of 'system' is to provide all those basic tools
which someone might need when doing sysadmin things without X .
that's why Lynx is included, to allow seeking WWW help & downloading things.
Ed is there because it's needed for Sed, which is useful for sysadmin;
Bc has a similar usefulness.  all at basic console level.

as they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it:
try to understand why it was done that way originally.

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