[caiman-discuss] Additions to package list
David.Comay at Sun.COM
David.Comay at Sun.COM
Mon Sep 24 00:30:45 PDT 2007
> These tools are very basic functionality at the core of any *nix or
> look-alike OS. This is not only for developers but also for users
> trying to figure a problem or an admin asking a user to perform
> a step if he faces a problem. For eg. how do we look at exported
> symbols without nm. If a user tomorrow reports a problem with
> the Slim LiveCD and we want him to perform some basic debugging
> lack of these tools will limit options. We shouldn't be limiting
> observability in trying to keep the package list reduced.
> BTW the livekit itself will not function without this package since it
> also contains tsort among other things.
I agree that nm, dump and elfdump might be useful in these sorts of
situations although most of the package really is tilted towards
developers. However, since it's so small (and I think there might be
other consumers of tsort) I'm OK with adding this one back in.
dsc
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