From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rs25s9.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (rs25s9.datacenter.cha.cantv.net [200.44.33.10]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3LLUYpt011922 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:30:35 GMT Received: from dC9F335CF.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net (dC9F335CF.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net [201.243.53.207]) by rs25s9.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (8.13.0/8.13.0/3.0) with ESMTP id j3LLUX9N030531 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:30:33 -0400 X-Matched-Lists: [] Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by dC9F335CF.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOjFq-0001jL-QS for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:30:34 -0400 Message-ID: <42681B7A.1090504@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:30:34 -0400 From: "Luis F. Araujo" Organization: Gentoo inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050409) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system References: <200504211306.57424.vapier@gentoo.org> <31cfb4d00504211209117bf4e5@mail.gmail.com> <20050421191938.GC8632@kfk4ever.com> <200504211629.55843.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200504211629.55843.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.81, clamav-milter version 0.81b on rs25s9.datacenter.cha.cantv.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: 3de42be7-caf2-4b81-851d-8489844089fc X-Archives-Hash: b72b9adcb3a090c3f47747a50f9abeb2 Mike Frysinger wrote: >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 > > Nobody is forcing. I think it is better/easier to keep the package than tracking/adding a lot of dependencies in the ebuilds. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list