From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] distro: Add util-linux.
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:29:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqwzdoy6.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5hfupfa.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?Court\=E8s\?\= \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?\=22's\?\= message of "Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:27:05 +0100")
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Hi,
>
> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> skribis:
>
>> Nikita Karetnikov <nikita.karetnikov@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> 3. 'util-linux' uses a lot of licenses. According to
>>> 'README.licensing', it uses GPLv3+, GPLv2+, GPLv2, LGPLv2+, BSD with
>>> advertising, and Public Domain. GPLv2+ is the default license for code
>>> without an explicitly defined license.
>>
>> Btw, what tools from util-linux is it that you believe are important?
>> If the licensing situation is unclear, maybe those could be moved to
>> some GNU project (CoreUtils/InetUtils/...?).
>
> Unfortunately, Coreutils is no longer sufficient:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-05/msg00101.html
>
> And IIRC the latest Ineutils release lacks a few tools compared to
> net-tools, no?
Right. Getting a list of what non-GNU tools are necessary/useful would
be useful. Is 'su' the only tool that prompted addition of util-linux
here? util-linux and net-tools contains a lot of tools that are rarely
needed, it would be nice to limit the number of their tools that are
added as a pre-requisite for a Guix system. I know InetUtils could use
a 'arp' tool, and I have one almost completed sitting here locally for
some time that I intend to push...
/Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-03 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-02 4:43 [PATCH] distro: Add util-linux Nikita Karetnikov
2012-12-02 22:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-12-03 23:54 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2012-12-04 16:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-12-03 15:14 ` Simon Josefsson
2012-12-03 15:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-12-03 17:29 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2012-12-03 18:12 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2012-12-03 20:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
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