[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi, > > Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> skribis: > >> Nikita Karetnikov <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> 3. 'util-linux' uses a lot of licenses. According to >>> 'README.licensing', it uses GPLv3+, GPLv2+, GPLv2, LGPLv2+, BSD with >>> advertising, and Public Domain. GPLv2+ is the default license for code >>> without an explicitly defined license. >> >> Btw, what tools from util-linux is it that you believe are important? >> If the licensing situation is unclear, maybe those could be moved to >> some GNU project (CoreUtils/InetUtils/...?). > > Unfortunately, Coreutils is no longer sufficient: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-05/msg00101.html > > And IIRC the latest Ineutils release lacks a few tools compared to > net-tools, no?
Right. Getting a list of what non-GNU tools are necessary/useful would be useful. Is 'su' the only tool that prompted addition of util-linux here? util-linux and net-tools contains a lot of tools that are rarely needed, it would be nice to limit the number of their tools that are added as a pre-requisite for a Guix system. I know InetUtils could use a 'arp' tool, and I have one almost completed sitting here locally for some time that I intend to push... /Simon
