On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:12:41AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >--- Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We've been round this. Base is for _base_ stuff only. Not 'useful'. Not >> 'nice'. Base. Stuff without which the shell won't initialize, and users >> can't do anything. >> >I think the "users can't do anything" part is pretty subjective. I guess >I can understand not wanting to add anything new to base right now, but >why are 'diff', 'sed', 'which' in base right now? Because there was a >(arbitrary) list of packages for a "minimal" install: > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-02/msg01111.html > >(BTW, the list includes 'less' but that was left out for some reason.)
That's because I didn't use this list. I had another criteria which, if you are looking in the email archives, you should be able to see mentioned a few times. I used the 'base' category from debian. Hopefully we haven't drifted from that too much. I don't know why 'which' is in the 'base' category since I can't find it in debian. That is probably a mistake. I can't find 'more' in debian, either but if 'less' isn't in base, then obviously 'more' shouldn't be either. cgf
