Re: Override changes standard -> optional

[Michael Goetze <mgoetze@mgoetze.net>]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> I think the following are borderline:
>
> > hdparm
> > iftop
> > iotop
> > ncftp
> > nmap
> > strace
>
> They're useful tools, many of which I use, but I'm not sure they're so
> useful to warrant installing them on every system by default.  You can
> generally install them when you need them, [...]

While I agree with you regarding the bottom 5 items on this list, hdparm 
might be quite useful (via its init script) to a lot of people who have 
no idea that it even exists. As far as I can see it currently does 
nothing by default, but if that changes, it might be useful to make it 
standard.

Regards,
Michael