On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 08:42:07PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 16:14 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > - ftp, telnet: mostly redundant with wget and nc, unless you really like > cleartext authentication I don't get why anyone would talk about "authentication" in the context of ftp and telnet in this millennium. Both do still see some use for authless services (downloads, dupload, termcast, ...). For downloads, wget and web browsers are indeed good alternatives, for termcast you need real telnet but that's an obscure use. +1 to dropping them from CD1, of course. > - jfsutils, reiserfsprogs, ufsutils: obscure These really need to stay on CD1. JFS in particular used to be the fastest filesystem not so long ago (for anything but big linear writes, where XFS was better), and thus is still in quite wide use. Being unmaintained these days, it doesn't make any sense on new systems, but in a rescue/reinstall situation, you need such packages at hand. And isn't UFS still the default filesystem on kfreebsd installs? Of course, it makes little sense on CD1 on Linux. > - openssh-server: server, not desktop Doesn't take much, and for the likes of us, is really useful. Can be installed from the network, though. > - deborphan, debfoster: obscure debfoster is great whenever you care about disk usage. Sure, that is mostly the case on vservers and the like rather than desktops, but as libraries, gnome components, random packages you tried once, etc, accumulate, it's nice to be able to drop unneeded cruft. -- Copyright and patents were never about promoting culture and innovations; from the very start they were legalized bribes to give the king some income and to let businesses get rid of competition. For some history, please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Monopolies_1623
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