Philip Webb wrote:
IIRC, "System" is the set of minimal packages required to get the system running. Lynx is not in system ( although on the liveCD so one can view/download web material while on the liveCD ). "System" has nothing to do with administrating your system. Thats your job as the administrator, to have all the utilities installed that you require.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.
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