Re: bc is not in linux-source debs.Recommended, neither in Documentation/Changes

[Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Regid Ichira <regid23@nt1.in> wrote:

On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 08:14:40 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:

> 1. What exactly are you concerned about that we can do something

>    about on the users list? Has bc been dropped from being a default
>    part of the most basic install?

bc is priority standard.  Doesn't that mean that there are Debian
installations without it?

Well, you can get a distro sans X for pretty much any value of X, if you try hard enough. I think the questions you want to ask would be --

Do distros maintainers that deliberately remove bc think they know what they are doing?

And should they be discouraged from thinking that way for some reason?

 

> 2. Do we need to contact someone at kernel.org?

  Is there a place to patch Documentation/Changes, or am I missing
something?

Sorry, I'm just a user who sometimes fools himself into thinking I know something.

(IIRC, openBSD has documentation packages to manage the documentation, which means that patching documentation is straightforward. I'm not familiar with Debian or kernel.org practices.)

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Joel Rees