comps' "standard" group spring cleaning?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 10.01.13 11:13, Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) wrote:

> 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.

How shall I proceed with this? file a feature for fesco? file a bug?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.