On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 12:35 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > 080128 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > now that the mktemp binary has been moved out of debianutils > > and integrated straight into coreutils, > > perhaps it's time to ask how important this package is to everyone. > > current debianutils is part of "system" and provides: > > - installkernel > > - run-parts > > - tempfile > > - savelog > > - mkboot > > do people consider these things critical ? > > i dont know the last time i personally needed/wanted any of these ... > > 'equery d debianutils' gives me > > app-admin/sysklogd-1.4.2_pre20061230 (sys-apps/debianutils) > app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3-r1 (userland_GNU? sys-apps/debianutils) > sys-apps/mktemp-1.5 (>=sys-apps/debianutils-2.16.2) > > The 2nd cb ignored, but the others seem important. > I have Mktemp-1.5 installed, so what do you mean by your lines 1-2 ? > Sysklogd seems to be an important pkg too.
savelog is used here to rotate logs from a cron job. I had a user rewriting the whole script the other week so it works without either perl or debianutils. (he replaced 80 lines perl with 7 lines POSIX shell code using sed, awk) I can create a bug on this so we get rid of both perl and debianutils dependency for app-admin/sysklogd. (great for embedded) -nc -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
