On 11:24 Sat 27 Sep , Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 09/27/14 11:19, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Ciaran McCreesh > > <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 12:47:14 +0200 > >> Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >>> Because I'd expect a stage3 to be posix compliant > >> I agree. It's time to replace nano with Vim. > >> > > To restate this: There are numerous other utilities specified in POSIX > > which we do not have in @system (or the stage3 tarball). > > > Agreed. The argument "its posix and should be in there" doesn't fit the > criterion for a stage3 tarball. A stage3 should be "a minimal set from > which any gentoo system can be built" (modulo arch, abi, libc, ..., of > course.) Emerging any linux kernel package will pull in bc (see > REDEPEND in kernel-2.eclass) and therefore bc is not needed to complete > that minimal set. >
(picking up the most relevant reply) Here[1] is the original discussion regarding the removal of bc and ed from the system set. I do prefer bc in system set too because I'm lazy to emerge the damn thing but their reasons were valid at that time(2005), and they 're still valid right now(2014). [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/27216 -- Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist ) ( Gentoo Lisp Project )
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