Re: Dropping awk?

[Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com>]

I think removing awk is a bad idea.  It will break legacy scripts as has already been suggested.  I am mostly an observer on this list and say very little but I think that awk is used by a lot of people.  I used it in a script that analyzed mail logs for example.  It was previously written in perl but I redid it in bash with awk and it ran faster. 

Thank you,

Michael Lazin

.. τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ νοεῖν ἐστίν τε καὶ εἶναι.

On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:

On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 10:12:24PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Container size is obviously not a priority for such users.

That is incorrect. Many, many users use Debian as the basis for
containers, and many such users care about container size, sufficiently
so to work on reducing it. You are suggesting that because they want to
use Debian, they don't care at all; I'm observing that they want to use
Debian and they care enough to try to make Debian better.