On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:06:57PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> we've had 'bc' and 'ed' around for historical reasons and because we've never 
> actually tracked what packages invoke 'bc' or 'ed' in their scripts
> 
> psm has looked into this and found that nothing else in a typical `emerge 
> system` requires these ... that means i'd like to prune them and make package 
> maintainers mention when their package needs these to build/run
+1 here, but tracking down all usages of them is going to be a pain.

I'm aware of a a two packages I maintain that make specific use of ed,
namely net-dns/ndu and sys-apps/tcng.

-- 
Robin Hugh Johnson
E-Mail     : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Home Page  : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2
ICQ#       : 30269588 or 41961639
GnuPG FP   : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED  F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85

Attachment: pgpCORlVq4doq.pgp
Description: PGP signature

Reply via email to