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From: Doug Klima <cardoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:57:53
Message-Id: 479DED44.4050002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ? by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > now that the mktemp binary has been moved out of debianutils and integrated
3 > straight into coreutils, perhaps it's time to ask how important this package
4 > is to everyone. current debianutils is part of "system" and provides:
5 > - installkernel
6 > - run-parts
7 > - tempfile
8 > - savelog
9 > - mkboot
10 > do people consider these things critical ? i dont know the last time i
11 > personally needed/wanted any of these ...
12 > -mike
13 >
14 I feel the same as you Mike. Toss it.
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