[2635] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: "unused" packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Mon Feb 15 18:13:04 1999
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:12:27 -0500
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[2599] in SIPB_Linux_Development"
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Derek wrote:
> bzip2
> lsof
I've added these to the Athena component.
I object in principle. Sure, these are both neat little tools, but I
think adding neat little tools to the Athena component goes against
the spirit of the Athena component. The Athena component should be
for software defined by the Athena Gods as Athena software.
(bzip2 especially doesn't belong in the Athena component. It's in the
sipb locker, so people running Linux-Athena actually have less use for
it than people running Linux without Athena.)
I certainly would not object to a "Neat Little Tools" component. (I
also don't object to RedHat's decision to leave them out of the comps
file.)
Sal.
