comps' "standard" group spring cleaning?

[Greg Swift]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:12 AM, <John.Florian at dart.biz> wrote:

> > From: Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de>
> >
> > Heya,
> >
> > I noticed that comps' "standard" group includes a lot of packages that
> > were all the hotness in 1990s but aren't really that much anymore. For
> > example, irda-tools, pcmciautils, finger, rsh, rdist, pinfo have
> > probably had their best times behind them, and probably shouldn't be
> > installed by default anymore.
> >
> > I'd like to propose that maybe it is time to remove these from
> > "standard" for F19. Note sure how to proceed on that. Propose a feature?
> > File a bug? Is there even a comps "maintainer"?
> >
> > (Oh, and to clarify this: it's just about what to install by default,
> > not about what to ship. It's just that I have a hard time remembering
> > when i saw the last laptop with irda or pcmcia ports, and maybe we
> > should not install that anymore by default...)
> >
> > Lennart
> >
> > --
> > Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.
>
> I agree with all those suggested, except for perhaps finger.
>  Unfortunately, I don't think companies ID'ing their employees by number
> has gone out of style.  I for one will continue to always install finger
> because I can't remember who 'd54321' is and finger really helps with that.
>  (Although, I'm also probably the only gray beard in the company that uses
> this. :-)
>
>
maybe i'm weird too, but ya.. i use finger more than who

-greg
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