Time to kill the "diff" empty upgrade helper?

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sun Feb 9 21:46:00 GMT 2003


On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:52:59PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:40:14AM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> It's been about 8 months since diff became diffutils.
>>>
>>> Time to get rid of diff? Or at least mark it [prev]?
>>
>> Is it hurting anything to keep it around?  We know that people
>> sometimes wait years before updating.
>
>Not hurting, really.  More like just looking untidy.  I was thinking
>that it wouldn't be a bad idea to streamline "Base", and started with
>the most obvious target.  (I'm currently running without "diff",
>"ncurses", "readline" and "login", to test whether they are suitable
>candidates for un-"Base"-ing.)

Well, I can certainly take it out of base.  That's no problem.

cgf



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