begin quote On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 20:26:13 +0200 Alex Efros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some other software which may be removed from 'system' is: > 1) gawk - there is a lot of different 'awk' realizations which user > may want instead of gawk (I prefer 'mawk') This may not be direct in system, check virtuals/ support ( a list of packages that provide the same functionality ) > 2) sysklogd - for example, I prefer 'multilog t /var/log/kernel > </proc/kmsg' instead of 'klogd', and 'read_syslog' instead of > 'syslogd'. its not. virtual/logger is. if you don't supply a logger yourself, it will use sysklogd because its "default" > 3) xfree - I don't know why xfree is in 'system' - I think this is > bad idea to have 'xfree' always installed, even on servers. USE flag +X +gtk +qt +kde +tcltk may any and all of those bring in xfree as a dependency. I'd suggest reading some more on USE flags too ;). > 4) dhcpd - it's small, but probably not 'system' because it isn't used > at all in many networks its a hard package cause there were too many users who forgot to install it and ended up with nonworking machines. :) > 5) debianutils Needed for "readlink" , and only that afaik. > 6) fbset Debateable, I agree. > 7) bc Common unix standard tool, used by a lot of buildscripts. > 8) ... and some other utilities, which may or may not be useful, but > which are not required, so they shouldn't be in 'system' - user can > install 'fbset' or 'bc' or other such utils later at any time... System provides a set of decent defaults for a user, making it simple to redo. if you wish to roll your own profile its dead simple actually, just check the /etc/make.profile, move it from a link to a directory and then do the changes.. (or simply relink it to another place ;) Hth, //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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