Re: A better miscutils
Guy Maor writes:
> I will create three packages - fsutils, loginutils, and fdutils. The
> first two will be base packages. fdutils is already being maintained
> by Michael Meskes.
Sound good to me.
> Several programs will definitely be added - vipw, vigr, ipcs, ipcrm,
> and which. I am considering three other programs - hostid, namei, and
> whereis. Please give me your opinions on whether you think these three
> are important.
While I don't think these three are as important as the other programs you
mentioned I still would liek to have them. Well, in fact I do have them
since I converted from Slackware and Slackware does have them. Since they
combine for about 15K (+ man pages) I think we should add them even if they
are less important.
> The two new packages will make any future Debian upgrades, such as
> fdisk3.0 or shadow password support, much easier. All relevant
> programs are already grouped together.
That's really important IMO.
> I believe the new system to be much cleaner, but I may have overlooked
> something. Any input would be appreciated.
I like it.
Michael
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Michael Meskes
Lehrstuhl fuer angewandte Mathematik insb. Informatik
RWTH-Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
email: meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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