On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 12:20:31PM -0500, Fred Ringwald wrote: > Yesterday Sven Hartge responded to my query regarding rsync, quoted below. > However, my question was not a technical question asking why rsync was not > automatically installed during a stock amd64 debian installation, but a > more philosophical question as to why the debian administrators chose to > make rsync optional, given the importance of backup data. > Thank you to Sven and to those who have read and considered my question. > Fred Ringwald
Hi Fred, First, please don't top-post. It is considered discorteous on many mailing lists, including debian-user. The philsophy there is that it doesn't really meet the criteria for required, important, or standard [0]. There is perhaps an argument, based in part on how you were surprised by its absence, that rsync should be considered important. However, I have personally never been surprised when it has been absent, as I do not consider it a core utility. It is certainly very useful and I install it on all of my systems, but I can see how someone going for a minimal system would consider it bloat. Regards, -Roberto [0] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#priorities -- Roberto C. Sánchez
