Bruno Haible via Bug reports for autoconf <bug-autoc...@gnu.org> writes:
> Simon Josefsson wrote: >> It seems awk is going away as a standard tool, and it is possible to >> either fight that or just accept it. > > I don't think that the set of "standard tools" is shrinking. Rather, > it's expanding. On OpenBSD for example, perl is installed by default. > Similarly, Python is considered a standard tool nowadays. I think it depends on what kind of environment we are talking about. "Debian" installed via debian-installer do not result in the same environment as running the docker container images (which are typically used for CI) or the cloud images (which are typically used in Kubernetes environments). I'm not sure there is a trend that container images for OS's are growing, I think most distributions are actively trying to make them as small as possible and are dropping packages. This also seem to change over time, what used to be included in a (for example) "Debian 11" container image could at some point be removed. /Simon
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