On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 12:35:27PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:55:23PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Anyway, there are already plenty of tools in /bin capable of performing > > the task of cut(1). > Sure.
So why waste everyone's time discussing it rather than just using sed or /bin/sh and getting on with your life? > The set of files provided by Debian's Essential packages is, in > fact, minimal. Depends what you mean. ddate, dpkg, dselect, factor, find, mawk, perl, sort, tr, tsort, uniq, update-rc.d, whoami, xargs, and yes are all in essential packages and in /usr/bin. Essential packages are the ones needed to maintain a Debian system; utilities in /bin and /sbin are ones needed to recover a system. > Are you suggesting that we substitute your judgement of > what is "minimal" for the Debian Policy Manual's? People like Herbert's judgement is what was used to write the policy manual. > I'm CCing debian-policy as a means of RFD. I invite your participation > if you have something to contribute beyond "don't do that, then." Sometimes "so don't do that, then" is the right answer. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BAM! Science triumphs again!'' -- http://www.angryflower.com/vegeta.gif
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