On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Regid Ichira <regi...@nt1.in> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 08:14:40 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > > 1. What exactly are you concerned about that we can do something > > about on the users list? Has bc been dropped from being a default > > part of the most basic install? > > bc is priority standard. Doesn't that mean that there are Debian > installations without it? >
Well, you can get a distro sans X for pretty much any value of X, if you try hard enough. I think the questions you want to ask would be -- Do distros maintainers that deliberately remove bc think they know what they are doing? And should they be discouraged from thinking that way for some reason? > > 2. Do we need to contact someone at kernel.org? > > Is there a place to patch Documentation/Changes, or am I missing > something? > Sorry, I'm just a user who sometimes fools himself into thinking I know something. (IIRC, openBSD has documentation packages to manage the documentation, which means that patching documentation is straightforward. I'm not familiar with Debian or kernel.org practices.) -- Joel Rees
