* Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system
@ 2005-04-21 17:17 99% ` Robin H. Johnson
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From: Robin H. Johnson @ 2005-04-21 17:17 UTC (permalink / raw
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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 never
> actually tracked what packages invoke 'bc' or 'ed' in their scripts
>
> psm has looked into this and found that nothing else in a typical `emerge
> system` requires these ... that means i'd like to prune them and make package
> 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.
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