At 18:29 Uhr +0000 15.02.2019, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>>That's why I have to install XEmacs, tcsh and uucp from pkgsrc. Which is
>>fine.
>
>So the question then becomes: "Is something that you presumably need,
>since you use everyday 'fluff'?"
The way I see it, you _need_ a functionality (editor, shell, ls(1),
printing daemon), not a specific implementation ('fluff'). There is pkgsrc
for the latter.
That is why we ship vi(1), not XEmacs; csh(1), not tcsh(1); lpd(8), not
cups. And that is why we (so far) abstain from shipping an ls(1) that
shines in nine screaming colours.
Cheerio,
hauke
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