On Wednesday 21 July 2004 16.09, Lex Hider wrote: > I would suggest that they would be installed on a fair majority of > machines and it would be worth considering upgrading their > priorities. There is no need to guess - the popularity contest provides (very rough!) data on how often a specific package is installed and used. Changing the priority of certain packages is/was under discussion; one idea was throwing gcc out of standard (which I would lile to see). I haven't read the full discussion at that time and don't know how it concluded, so before you bring it up again, be sure to read those emails first. For small packages: I'm sure d-d could use a bit *technical* debate instead of just flamewars :-) But in the end it comes down to personal preference. Taking the packages you mentioned: > aptitude I never use it > sudo Essential: yes :-) > screen used it in the past, but not so much recently. > cdrecord > mkisofs I don't even have a CD burner... > beep Huh? PCs shouldn't annoy me! > bzip2 Yep. > eject I use the CD-ROM about 2 or 3 time per year, so I'd probably not even remember that there is a command. There is a button on the drive's front, you know :-) > wget yep. > discover Never used it. All in all, the priorities (except required) don't matter much for me, since I always use a netinst image and just skip aptitude/dselect/tasksel at installation, preferring instead to use just apt-get at the cmdline. [yes, I *know* aptitude can be used from the cmdline. Old habits...] Enough for now -- vbi -- Could this mail be a fake? (Answer: No! - http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro)
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