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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output.
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:29:13 +0100
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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=E2=80=
=99s
not =E2=80=9Cbundling=E2=80=9D in that we don=E2=80=99t have any other pack=
age providing
mkpasswd, and (2) it=E2=80=99s up to upstream to decide whether or not to
distribute mkpasswd.

WDYT?

Ludo=E2=80=99.