27 Feb
2010
27 Feb
'10
2:08 p.m.
(Forked from arch-dev-public) On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:40:27 +0200, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
The following packages are questionable: * diffutils - why it should be on every system? * gawk - why it should be on every system? [...] * mailx [...] * vi - ok, no bikeshed thing here, but there's nano for base
Those are required for Single UNIX Specification v3 conformance. However I think Arch Linux doesn't conform for other reasons anyway, and I support their removal from the base group. I always remove the 2 latter by hand after installing. -- catwell