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Subject: Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages
From: Steve Langasek <vorlon () netexpress ! net>
Date: 2003-07-15 21:55:19
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 02:46:17PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Package: mawk
> Priority: required
> Package: gawk
> Priority: optional
> I know for sure that in this instance gawk indcludes all of the features
> mawk does and many more.
> Maybe the reason is the pachage size?
> Package: mawk
> Installed-Size: 220
> Package: gawk
> Installed-Size: 1808
> That might be it.
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 216K Jun 5 16:47 /usr/bin/gawk
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85K May 30 07:27 /usr/bin/mawk
> If you split up the gawk package into gawk-doc and gawk-locales then the
> gawk package would probably only be 100k larger than mawk.
> I went to a UUG (Unix User Group), that had a presentation on awk, and many
> different implementations of awk were mentioned, but gawk was the big daddy
> that supported any feature imaginable in awk.
> So, now the question. Why isn't gawk in the base install?
Because an overabundance of features is not a primary consideration for
a base install?
Only 23 packages in the archive declare a relationship with gawk by
name. I'd say the current defaults are working pretty well for most awk
users if that's the case.
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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