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On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 18:00 +0200, Jes__s Garc__a Crespo wrote: |
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> Hi! I don't understand why gpm was included in the Gentoo base system. |
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> It was not in there before and I didn't find information about the |
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> reasons. But I could tell you my case: I installed Gentoo in my |
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> dedicated server in EEUU (I am from Spain) and I had to uninstall gpm |
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> since I won't use it anymore. I think that, for example, dhcpcd would be |
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> more logical to be included than gpm, don't you think so? |
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I suppose the reason is that when setting up a system on the console, it |
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helps to be able to cut-and-paste text with the mouse. While dhcpcd is |
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useful for servers, it isn't needed during initial setup, whereas gpm |
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is, even if it isn't used after that. |
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Ed |
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