Hi, Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> skribis:
> 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. Indeed. When we have a bootable distro, the goal is to use primarily GNU versions of the tools, obviously. Now, I think it’s OK to have packages for free variants of these GNU tools, for users who want them; it just won’t be the default. > 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... Heh, good! (In a similar vein, I hope that GNU Pies can become suitable as our daemon manager.) Thanks, Ludo’.
