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