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From: "Luis F. Araujo" <araujo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:30:35
Message-Id: 42681B7A.1090504@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2
3 >On Thursday 21 April 2005 03:19 pm, Maurice van der Pot wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:09:16PM +0300, Juha Varkki wrote:
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>>bc? Do you mean /usr/bin/bc or did I miss something?
10 >>>Why on earth are you taking it out?
11 >>>I use bc quite often actually ..
12 >>>
13 >>>
14 >>It's gonna be taken out of system, not removed from portage.
15 >>You can still emerge it if you want it, you'll just not be forced to
16 >>have it installed anymore.
17 >>
18 >>
19 >
20 >yeah, dont get me wrong ... i think 'bc' is a cool util, it's just that not
21 >many people 'new' to the *nix world have any clue what it's for so forcing it
22 >on them isnt nice ;)
23 >-mike
24 >
25 >
26 Nobody is forcing. I think it is better/easier to keep the package
27 than tracking/adding a lot of dependencies in the ebuilds.
28 --
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Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>