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Re: Core

>> I have my doubts about the necessity of libnewt and libslang.

> I just threw them out there because I remember some programs needing them.  
> Feel free to disregard if it doesn't make sense.

Both Red Hat and Debian are making extensive use of newt and whiptail in
configuration stuff.  You may also want to throw perl in there.

> Well, with the inclusion of alien, and support for the various packagers
> (dpkg, rpm, posix; though preferable lib* rather than the binaries), we
> can make *that* part of the core.  Or, we can make it a Layer.

Make it a layer.

> Well, the decision has pretty much been made for is.  sh and csh are Unix 
> tools, bash and tcsh are free tools.  Guess which ones we use...? :-)

I suggest that you require any POSIX shell rather than just bash.  That
would allow people to use ash, which is much smaller and faster.
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