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 j3LKTB9J031543 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:29:11 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOiIA-0005Qj-J6 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:28:54 +0000 Received: (qmail 2251 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2005 16:27:05 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 21 Apr 2005 16:27:05 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.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 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200504211306.57424.vapier@gentoo.org> <31cfb4d00504211209117bf4e5@mail.gmail.com> <20050421191938.GC8632@kfk4ever.com> In-Reply-To: <20050421191938.GC8632@kfk4ever.com> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504211629.55843.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 3005d6c1-ee4b-4e74-8f58-fc818e036983 X-Archives-Hash: 189515f63889ad0cf8df01c1cf2f1a5c 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list