Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hey,

ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw> skribis:

> Mkpasswd has nothing to do with whois, and upstream says so. I
> think we should be able to install whois and just have whois, not
> some random "historical bundled" binary in addition to whois.
> I'm just stating the sizes as in comparison to the other outputs
> they sometimes matter even if its just KiB.
>
> Like I've written in the opening email, another approach could be
> to simply delete mkpasswd from the output build and create an
> 'mkpasswd' package (inheriting from whois) which does the same
> for whois.

I might be overlooking something, but my gut reaction is that (1) it’s
not “bundling” in that we don’t have any other package providing
mkpasswd, and (2) it’s up to upstream to decide whether or not to
distribute mkpasswd.

WDYT?

Ludo’.