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Author: Adam Borowski
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] minor packaging quibbles in devuan cli
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 04:21:15PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:
> Two minor annoyance issues, and one curiosity, in today's install of
> devuan-cli:
>
> 1] sudo is not installed by default


Why should it be? It's a package of priority "optional"; only those of
"important" and usually (unless you uncheck a setting) "standard" get
installed above the bare mininum (ie, required/essential).

It's also a means of privilege escalation -- ie, not something you should
install unless you're going to actually configure and use it.

> 3] Why are both gcc-4.8 and 4.9 installed?


Not gcc-4.{8,9}, merely gcc-4.{8,9}-base. That's a few random files.
Both of those packages have priority:required, which is indeed a bug.

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