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Re: Importing tmux into base



On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:55:25AM +0300, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
> Julio Merino <jmmv%homeworld.netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > What do people think about importing tmux into base?
> 
> I'd like to remove non-essential software from the base instead.
> I don't use neither tmux nor screen, and I don't plan to. They are not
> needed to start working on bare-bone system either. Installing packages
> is easy and when one wants tmux or screen, one can just install whatever
> one wishes.

That way lies madness (or Debian) where quite a few traditional
linux utilites are absent and difficult to install.
Finding which package contains a missing binary is non-trivial,
and installing enough X fonts almost impossible!

        David

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