Re: Rsync

[Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 12:20:31PM -0500, Fred Ringwald wrote:
>    Yesterday Sven Hartge responded to my query regarding rsync, quoted below.
>    However, my question was not a technical question asking why rsync was not
>    automatically installed during a stock amd64 debian installation, but a
>    more philosophical question as to why the debian administrators chose to
>    make rsync optional, given the importance of backup data.
>    Thank you to Sven and to those who have read and considered my question.
>    Fred Ringwald

Hi Fred,

First, please don't top-post.  It is considered discorteous on many
mailing lists, including debian-user.

The philsophy there is that it doesn't really meet the criteria for
required, important, or standard [0].

There is perhaps an argument, based in part on how you were surprised by
its absence, that rsync should be considered important.  However, I have
personally never been surprised when it has been absent, as I do not
consider it a core utility.  It is certainly very useful and I install
it on all of my systems, but I can see how someone going for a minimal
system would consider it bloat.

Regards,

-Roberto

[0] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#priorities
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Roberto C. Sánchez