Re: priorities
Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> It also includes, but afaics, probably doesn't need to (anymore):
>
> ispell, dictionaries-common, iamerican, ibritish, wamerican
> m4, texinfo (???)
texinfo possibly for info and dating from the days of needing to have an
info reader to get real documentation for many of the GNU tools?
> mtools (access unmounted msdos filesystems, not NTFS though)
Probably obsolete at this point.
> nfs-common, portmap (enables mounting NFS shares)
> pidentd (is IDENT still used on today's internet, with all its NAT?)
> openbsd-inetd (needed by pidentd)
identd is still used somewhat, mostly with IRC, but it's almost certainly
optional rather than standard.
> tcsh (people who remember what it is know how to install it)
Having a /bin/csh falls into "present on all Unix systems and likely to
provoke WTF reactions if not there." Also, I'm pretty sure that tcsh is
very comfortably the second-most-used interactive shell, way ahead of
zsh, on Linux systems.
Lots of us old-timers haven't made the leap for our interactive shell
yet. :) And it's probably more common among the average user than among
DDs, since DDs are more likely to be interested in playing with the latest
and greatest stuff.
> time (???)
Likewise. time is a standard Unix program.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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