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 j3LHHQi9028993 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:17:26 GMT Received: from tirpitz.iat.sfu.ca ([209.87.56.17]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOfIa-0000ZP-E3 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:17:08 +0000 Received: (qmail 690 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2005 10:17:32 -0700 Received: from s01060050da688d47.vc.shawcable.net (HELO curie.orbis-terrarum.net) (24.80.100.253) by tirpitz.iat.sfu.ca with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 21 Apr 2005 10:17:32 -0700 Received: (qmail 22602 invoked by uid 10000); 21 Apr 2005 10:17:33 -0700 Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:17:33 -0700 From: "Robin H. Johnson" To: Gentoo Developers Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system Message-ID: <20050421171733.GB18564@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> Mail-Followup-To: Gentoo Developers References: <200504211306.57424.vapier@gentoo.org> 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200504211306.57424.vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Archives-Salt: ef72d1f7-7b92-44a2-a768-1936f2a77729 X-Archives-Hash: 991756a0b07e5d3d3342f2cd0f3367cf --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:06:57PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > we've had 'bc' and 'ed' around for historical reasons and because we've n= ever=20 > actually tracked what packages invoke 'bc' or 'ed' in their scripts >=20 > psm has looked into this and found that nothing else in a typical `emerge= =20 > system` requires these ... that means i'd like to prune them and make pac= kage=20 > maintainers mention when their package needs these to build/run +1 here, but tracking down all usages of them is going to be a pain. I'm aware of a a two packages I maintain that make specific use of ed, namely net-dns/ndu and sys-apps/tcng. --=20 Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=3Dpeople.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Robbat2 @ Orbis-Terrarum Networks iD8DBQFCZ+AtPpIsIjIzwiwRAm4aAKDTbmK9910pOSRabe+IvvJQQOB34ACgqR7R yJX4DAz9OQoL1Oz4j6HsY3A= =sRjU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list