[14526] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Housekeeping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Tue Jul 20 17:37:14 2004
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From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
To: Mike Rolish <merolish@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Housekeeping
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 04:59:58PM -0400, Mike Rolish wrote:
> The recent ncurses/less issue got me wondering how many of the programs
> in the sipb locker are also in the release. They are listed below. I
> recommend that they all be removed unless there is good reason not to do
> so. With a few exceptions, they're only symlinks to earlier arches and
> older versions than their counterparts in the release.
>
> I particularly support retiring SIPB pine.
[...]
> tac
The "tac" in the sipb locker is a console AIM client. The "tac" in the
release reverses the lines in a file. We should probably not get rid
of the "tac" in the sipb locker without good reason.
yak
