comps' "standard" group spring cleaning?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Jan 10 15:55:40 UTC 2013


Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> said:
> 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.

pinfo is the (IMHO) best console info page reader, and until we stop
having man pages that say "see the info page for real documentation"
and/or packages that only ship info pages, pinfo should stay (and should
be at the same default install level as man).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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