Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
Don't a number of Linux systems ship without those tools unless added via a separate package? I know, I know - "it's that way in Linux" isn't necessarily a compelling reason.
AARRGGHH! yeaah, and in most "distros" so is the kernel, and so is the bourne shell, and so is awk, and so is grep 10: and so is ... 20: GOTO 10 using the word 'linux' and 'system' can sometimes be an oxymoron. Unix: at origin: A self-contained 7" tape of the unix source tree, and a self-hosting build of that self-same source tree. -- That's an 'operating system' - it "operates system". IMHO, 2c, YMMV, Amen.
