> Possibly there should be a "tradunix" ebuild that pulls in all the > traditional Unix stuff as dependencies (and is otherwise empty), and > similarly for other sets of things people hold dear, just to act as > macros when you're setting up a system.
I think this is a spectacular idea. The push towards cleaning out unneccessary things from system is correct, and should not be halted, but a sysadmin new to gentoo who wants to have the "standard UNIX tools" readily available shouldn't have to figure out what's missing and what's not. To this end a "tradunix" or somesuch metaebuild that pulls in bc, ed, etc., as well as possibly some less traditional but very UNIX-y things that should be on more systems (like nc and lsof) would be excellent. Of course, what should be included in this metaebuild is an open question subject to debate, but that can be hashed out later and changed when necessary -- but just having it exist would be a good start. Athul -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
