On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure wether it should be part of the toolchain but to me "base > tools/libs" should somehow be standardized on. I'm thinking along the lines > of xz, bzip and such (I'm more along the lines of: Provide an environment as > complete as possible for the users). Most of the time these tools are not > technically required but I found that a lot of users expect the tools to > simply be available and in a working state.
What kind of tools do you have in mind? xz and bzip2 already have to be present as a requirement of EB. It seems quite difficult to come up with a complete set? gawk, sed, grep, ... I don't think we again much by adding these to EB? I personally expect that any Linux computer has vim installed ;) ( and yes, Ubuntu, I'm looking at you ) Ward
