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Re: [bug-inetutils] More of a feature request than a bug fix


From: Jeff Bailey
Subject: Re: [bug-inetutils] More of a feature request than a bug fix
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 07:49:05 -0800
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:43:23PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:

> For a root/boot disk set I would not even recommend using inetutils,
> let alone things like the GNU C Library, they are not suitable for
> such specific systems.  Inetutils is written to be feature rich.  If
> you really need such featureless programs then there are far better
> alternatives.

Why *shouldn't* we make inetutils sufficiently modular to be suitable
for this?

Last I looked this type of thing hadn't made the nano code really ugly.

The C Library has a different goal, but we don't require it to compile
us.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey




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