050421 Juha Varkki wrote: > 050421 Mike Frysinger wrote: >> we've had 'bc' and 'ed' around for historical reasons >> and because we've never actually tracked what packages invoke them > Do you mean /usr/bin/bc or did I miss something? > Why on earth are you taking it out? I use bc quite often actually ..
surely the idea of 'system' is to provide all those basic tools which someone might need when doing sysadmin things without X . that's why Lynx is included, to allow seeking WWW help & downloading things. Ed is there because it's needed for Sed, which is useful for sysadmin; Bc has a similar usefulness. all at basic console level. as they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it: try to understand why it was done that way originally. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [email protected] mailing list
