Re: dc and bc in Important?
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, David Frey wrote:
[...]
> > ``Important programs, including those which one would expect to find
> > on any Unix-like system. If the expectation is that an experienced
> > Unix person who found it missing would go `What the F*!@<+ is going
> > on, where is foo', it should be in important. This is an important
> > criterion because we are trying to produce, amongst other things, a
> > free Unix.'' (3.1.4.1 of debian-policy 2.1.3.3)
>
> Correlated note: It is not explicitely stated in the policy manual, but
> IMO we should flag all utilities mentioned in the POSIX.2 standard as
> 'Important' [...]
IMHO, as long as the list is of manageable size, it'd be better to
explicitly list the "important" utilities instead of leaving this
as a judgement call to be made (differently) by each individual
package maintainer.
One complicating factor here is utility vs. package granularity.
For example: uuencode/uudecode are packaged with sharutils, and
ar with binutils. uuencode/uudecode and ar are on your POSIX
list, but other utilities in the packages which provide them
are not.
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