[HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide

[Jon Ciesla]

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>Â Otherwise, Â make
>> ddate a sub package and don't install it by default. Â  Solved?
>
> As an upstream the willingness of distributions to strip out commands
> which I wanted to provide and don't offer a build option to disable
> via sub-packaging will simply encourage me to pack more functionality
> into single binaries that the distributions won't strip.
>
> So I think Fedora shouldn't be more willing to strip ddate than it
> would be willing to patch out ddate functionality if it were embedded
> in 'hwclock'.
>
> There is a reasonable argument that util-linux ought to go on a diet:
> Right now it appears to take up 6424k on disk.
>
> (Though, most of that is localizations— and several of the various
> NEWS/readme files it includes are bigger than ddate, as is its copy of
> the GPL. This silly thread has probably taken up more disk space than
> ddate, or it soon will)

I think it has. :)

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