FS#22319 - `bc' is POSIX and should be in `core' (installed by default)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Michael Witten (mfwitten) - Tuesday, 04 January 2011, 22:06 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 04 January 2011, 22:48 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.4.2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

The POSIX:2001 (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) specifies that the `bc' utility program should be present; indeed, the official Arch Linux `man-pages' package in the `core' repository installs a POSIX man page for it: /usr/share/man/man1/bc.1p.gz

Unfortunately, the `bc' utility program itself is not installed by default; the official Arch Linux `bc' package in the `extra' repository must be installed explicitly by the user.

In my opinion, `bc' should be in `core' and it should be installed by default.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Tuesday, 04 January 2011, 22:48 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 04 January 2011, 22:31 GMT
  • Field changed: Attached to Project (Pacman → Arch Linux)
1. We're not POSIX-compliant on a lot of other fronts and we don't pretend to be, so this is more than likely a "Won't implement".
2. Please check which project you file the bug under, thanks.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 04 January 2011, 22:40 GMT
+1 Won't implement. I even trying to get binutils upstream to remove "dc" (from bc package) usage from the binutils testsuite...
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Tuesday, 04 January 2011, 22:45 GMT
+1 Won't implement.

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