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

[ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> 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’.

It's annoying that two unrelated applications are thrown into one
distribution/package.

I'm contacting upstream developer later this week to see wether I
can get them to move mkpasswd elsewhere or why it's still there.
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