comps' "standard" group spring cleaning?

Jonathan Masters jcm at redhat.com
Fri Jan 11 19:23:20 UTC 2013


Hi Lennart,

I would like to remove finger from the list. It is still very much in use. I use it many times daily. I realize my use case is multiuser and server systems - not of interest to Fedora - but the overhead is little, so I would be grateful if it remained.

Jon.

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On Jan 10, 2013, at 10:07, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:

> 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
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