In your email to me, Bill Mitchell, you wrote: > > > > On 25 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > By the current definition of Important: > >[...] > > sendmail > > * dpkg-dev should not be there since no experienced user of another > > Unix would expect it > > * lilo should not be there because lilo is not part of UNIX > > I read it differently: > > ``Important programs, including those which one would expect to find > on any Unix-like system. If the expectation is that an experienced > Unix person who found it missing would go `What the F*!@<+ is going > on, where is foo', it should be in important. [...] > > I read an implication of "including, but not limited to, ..." > into that. > > However, I could buy some of your arguments that other > packages (providing cc, lpr, etc.) not currently considered > Important should be considered Important by this rule because > they pass the Unix person expectation test.
Anyone that works iwth Slowaris 2.5 or so will tell you that cc is *not* part of the OS anymore.. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but gets changed at the next opportunity if it squeaks habitually." ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
