From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from egr.msu.edu (jeeves.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3LNR8xh014049 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 23:27:08 GMT Received: from [35.9.36.120] (dhcp-35-9-36-120 [35.9.36.120]) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3LNR8Dg006114 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:27:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <426836A2.7000002@egr.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:26:26 -0400 From: Alec Joseph Warner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) 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> <42681B7A.1090504@gentoo.org> <426826C9.5030103@gentoo.org> <4268358A.9000705@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4268358A.9000705@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8fd8e69a-54df-4b7a-8567-d87243361020 X-Archives-Hash: a9ffd59fa6f6f4ba73f4fb1c83300f6a If someone is willing to do the work and not fsck things royally I don't see a big deal about it. If nothing in system depends on it then it shouldn't be there, we can trim 250kb off of all our stages and liveCD's. Embedded gains 250kb off of their stuff as well. I just don't want to see giant h0rkage in the tree because the person doing the work didn't do a good enough job. *mutters something about tree changesets*. Luis F. Araujo wrote: > No. I just don't see the point to unnecessarily remove a package of > 249.72 KB that might > be very tricky to find out all of its dependencies and will lead to > (unnecessarily) ebuild rewriting. > bc is the kind of application that has been around long time enough to > cause tricky > problems, that's fine ... as long as it isn't unncessarily. > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list