Luca Barbato <[email protected]> writes: > On 08/07/2012 05:48 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote: >> Derek Buitenhuis <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On 07/08/2012 11:19 AM, Måns Rullgård wrote: >>>>> Perhaps this should be noted in general. I have run into lack of bc >>>>>> while running fate on many Linux distros myself. >>>> bc is part of a standard POSIX system. >>> >>> I seem to remember bc not actually being a part of the 'base' POSIX >>> system, but a level higher, or something... >> >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/bc.html >> >> The spec does not mention anything about it being optional. >> > > Some misguided people at > ubuntu/debian/gentoo/nameit/no-I-do-not-know-who-started decided to drop > bc from the base system to spare space.
Seriously? To save space? It's 200k FFS. I don't mind if there is a way to remove even such basic packages for the cases where space (or something else) really is a concern, but not installing all the base POSIX tools by default is unforgivable. -- Måns Rullgård [email protected] _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
