comps' "standard" group spring cleaning?

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Thu Jan 10 16:01:33 UTC 2013


On Thu, 10.01.13 09:55, Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) wrote:

> 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).

My mail wasn't really about the specifics what to remove but how to get
themn removed.

But I'll bite anyway: we hardly need two info readers installed by
default, do we?

Lennart

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