comps' "standard" group spring cleaning?

[Bill Nottingham]

Lennart Poettering (mzerqung at 0pointer.de) said: 
> 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?

Then remove the other one?

With respect to the others... most could go. I honestly thought pcmciautils
was gone already, but perhaps that was for something else. Most of the
storage stuff can go too in favor of being brought in either at
installation, or by deps of other tools.

Bill