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Re:Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell by cactusface on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @06:15PM (#9649394)
X11, KDE, GNOME, GCC, Emacs, Mozilla? Any huge project I guess. The GNU command line tools are not as lean as the BSD ones but so what?
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Re:Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell by Thetawaves on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @10:27PM (#9650228)
They also generally have more (useful) features than the BSD ones.
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Re:Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell by fallat on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @12:36AM (#9650596)
Not only that but they include more documentation inside the binary. Someone also pointed out to me one time that some features in some GNU utils are only possible to have if they are implemented in the binary, rather as a separate program.
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Re:Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell by cactusface on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @06:26AM (#9651632)
Well, generally speaking nothing is impossible, but it's often more efficient to put the extra features in the same binary. However this "bloat" is nothing compared to your typical desktop or programming environment.
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