[2637] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: "unused" packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Feb 15 20:06:36 1999
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Feb 1999 20:05:37 -0500
In-Reply-To: Salvatore Valente's message of Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:12:27 -0500
Ok, I've made a 'Useful Tools' package, turned on by
default, and I moved bzip2 and lsof over there. I
left ispell, xntp3, and x3270 in the Athena component
-derek
Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>
> 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.
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