Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > Hey, > > ng0 <n...@libertad.pw> skribis: > >> Mkpasswd has nothing to do with whois, and upstream says so. I >> think we should be able to install whois and just have whois, not >> some random "historical bundled" binary in addition to whois. >> I'm just stating the sizes as in comparison to the other outputs >> they sometimes matter even if its just KiB. >> >> Like I've written in the opening email, another approach could be >> to simply delete mkpasswd from the output build and create an >> 'mkpasswd' package (inheriting from whois) which does the same >> for whois. > > I might be overlooking something, but my gut reaction is that (1) it’s > not “bundling” in that we don’t have any other package providing > mkpasswd, and (2) it’s up to upstream to decide whether or not to > distribute mkpasswd. > > WDYT? > > Ludo’.
It's annoying that two unrelated applications are thrown into one distribution/package. I'm contacting upstream developer later this week to see wether I can get them to move mkpasswd elsewhere or why it's still there. -- ♥Ⓐ ng0 -- https://www.inventati.org/patternsinthechaos/
