Re: Uploaded mc-4.1.24-1 (i386 binary & source) to master
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Florian Kuehnert wrote:
> On 24 Jan 1998, Martin Mitchell wrote:
>
> >> Currently MC is distributed with the priority "extra", but since it is
> >> such a powerful tool for simplifying system administration tasks i'd
> >> like to see it distributed with priority "standard" instead.
> >> Do you approve of this idea?
> >No, in my view it should not be a standard package.
>
> Why not?
It unnecessarily bloats the size of the default distribution. Mc is
really nice if you've used norton commander, but for many people it isn't
necessary or useful. (i personally type mc instead of mv enough that i
get annoyed at systems where mc does something that takes time)
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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