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From: Juha Varkki <dbg.64b@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:09:11
Message-Id: 31cfb4d00504211209117bf4e5@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system by Ciaran McCreesh
1 bc? Do you mean /usr/bin/bc or did I miss something?
2 Why on earth are you taking it out?
3 I use bc quite often actually ..
4
5 -- Juha Varkki / dbg
6
7 On 4/21/05, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o> wrote:
8 > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:06:57 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
9 > wrote:
10 > | we've had 'bc' and 'ed' around for historical reasons and because
11 > | we've never actually tracked what packages invoke 'bc' or 'ed' in
12 > | their scripts
13 >
14 > Anyone still using ed-style patches rather than context or unified
15 > diffs?
16 >
17 > --
18 > Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
19 > Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
20 > Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
21 >
22 >
23 >
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca>