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Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o> posted 478546B6.2080009@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:12:06 -0800: |
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> We all know that ssh is good for sysadmins and netadmins and Gentoo |
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> developers, etc. However, desktop users -- i.e., those not in those |
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> categories, which is most everyone else, likely do not find it as |
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> useful. [reluctant snip] If you *need* it to do work (admins, I'm |
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> looking at you), then you can *emerge* it. Just like vim, cvs, |
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> dev_tool_foo etc. |
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> I *am* a desktop user. And . . . aside from Gentoo development, I have |
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> no need for ssh. It could easily be removed from the system profile -- |
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> the only place it might be kept is in the liveCD environment, for remote |
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> installations. Other than that, we don't need to ship it in our stages; |
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> just on the media. |
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As another desktop user (who FWIW has his virtual/ssh entry pointed at |
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sys-apps/baselayout, one more reason he's glad Gentoo's flexible like |
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that =8^) ... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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