From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:29:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200504211629.55843.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050421191938.GC8632@kfk4ever.com>
On Thursday 21 April 2005 03:19 pm, Maurice van der Pot wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:09:16PM +0300, Juha Varkki wrote:
> > bc? 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 ..
>
> It's gonna be taken out of system, not removed from portage.
> You can still emerge it if you want it, you'll just not be forced to
> have it installed anymore.
yeah, dont get me wrong ... i think 'bc' is a cool util, it's just that not
many people 'new' to the *nix world have any clue what it's for so forcing it
on them isnt nice ;)
-mike
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-21 17:06 [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system Mike Frysinger
2005-04-21 17:17 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-04-21 19:09 ` Juha Varkki
2005-04-21 19:19 ` Maurice van der Pot
2005-04-21 20:29 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2005-04-21 21:30 ` Luis F. Araujo
2005-04-21 22:18 ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-04-21 23:21 ` Luis F. Araujo
2005-04-21 23:26 ` Alec Joseph Warner
2005-04-22 1:15 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-04-22 6:46 ` Philip Webb
2005-04-22 7:09 ` Alin Nastac
2005-04-22 14:05 ` Spider
2005-04-22 17:16 ` Alin Nastac
2005-04-22 23:35 ` Luke Ravitch
2005-04-22 23:58 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-04-24 18:45 ` Anthony de Boer
2005-04-24 19:15 ` Alec Warner
2005-04-24 20:27 ` Jan Kundrát
2005-04-24 20:54 ` Athul Acharya
2005-04-24 21:04 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-04-22 12:59 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-04-22 13:06 ` Alec Joseph Warner
2005-04-21 17:17 ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-04-22 21:29 ` Drake Wyrm
2005-04-22 21:38 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-04-22 21:49 ` David Klaftenegger
2005-04-22 21:54 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-04-22 21:58 ` David Klaftenegger
2005-04-23 3:32 ` Drake Wyrm
2005-04-23 3:41 ` Georgi Georgiev
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