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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?
From:       Mike Frysinger <vapier () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2008-01-31 23:46:33
Message-ID: 200801311846.33678.vapier () gentoo ! org
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On Thursday 31 January 2008, Natanael Copa wrote:
> 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)

i dont quite follow ... savelog is already a POSIX script and i dont see it 
executing perl ...
-mike

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