From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3LH6CuC013512 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:06:12 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOf7i-0001MD-CK for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:05:54 +0000 Received: (qmail 12212 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2005 13:04:07 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 21 Apr 2005 13:04:07 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:06:57 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504211306.57424.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 453f9a46-0212-49d4-a54f-9ad76c4aedda X-Archives-Hash: 155f3db045504fbbeffec66f11eeccc2 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 thoughts ? -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list