On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 02:46:17PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Package: mawk > Priority: required > Package: gawk > Priority: optional > I know for sure that in this instance gawk indcludes all of the features > mawk does and many more. > Maybe the reason is the pachage size? > Package: mawk > Installed-Size: 220 > Package: gawk > Installed-Size: 1808 > That might be it. > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 216K Jun 5 16:47 /usr/bin/gawk > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85K May 30 07:27 /usr/bin/mawk > If you split up the gawk package into gawk-doc and gawk-locales then the > gawk package would probably only be 100k larger than mawk. > I went to a UUG (Unix User Group), that had a presentation on awk, and many > different implementations of awk were mentioned, but gawk was the big daddy > that supported any feature imaginable in awk. > So, now the question. Why isn't gawk in the base install? Because an overabundance of features is not a primary consideration for a base install? Only 23 packages in the archive declare a relationship with gawk by name. I'd say the current defaults are working pretty well for most awk users if that's the case. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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