Josh Saddler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:12:06 -0800:
> We all know that ssh is good for sysadmins and netadmins and Gentoo > developers, etc. However, desktop users -- i.e., those not in those > categories, which is most everyone else, likely do not find it as > useful. [reluctant snip] If you *need* it to do work (admins, I'm > looking at you), then you can *emerge* it. Just like vim, cvs, > dev_tool_foo etc. > > I *am* a desktop user. And . . . aside from Gentoo development, I have > no need for ssh. It could easily be removed from the system profile -- > the only place it might be kept is in the liveCD environment, for remote > installations. Other than that, we don't need to ship it in our stages; > just on the media. As another desktop user (who FWIW has his virtual/ssh entry pointed at sys-apps/baselayout, one more reason he's glad Gentoo's flexible like that =8^) ... ++ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
