FC5 uudecode missing?

[alan]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Scot L. Harris wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 11:11 -0500, dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:
>>> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> After a fresh FC5 install from a known good DVD my mad-wifi 'make'
>>>> failed
>>>> when it couldn't find uudecode. After some hunting I found a man page
>>>> for
>>>> uudecode, but no file by that name anywhere. Whazzup?
>>>
>>> Install "sharutils".  It is in there.
>>>
>>> Personally I think that should be part of the base install.  There are
>>> still programs that require it to build correctly, such as the madwifi
>>> drivers. It takes up little space.  I guess it is just one of those
>>> forgotten packages that you don't figure you need until much later.
>
>>
>> Thanks very much. Is 'sharutils' in Extras, or is it on the DVD?
>>
>
> sharutils appears to be part of core and should be on the DVD.

"yum install sharutils" works for me.

I know it is on the DVD. I think it should be part of the base install, 
but that may just be me.  (I also think "tree" should be part of the base 
install.)


>> If the latter, I'll want to reopen the "everything" discussion. The only
>> packages I didn't select for installation were those in language support.
>
> I hit this same problem in a previous version of FC.  At the time what I
> found odd was that the man page for the uudecode utility was included on
> the system but the actual program was not.  IMHO the man page should be
> packaged with the program and both installed at the same time.  The man
> page without the program is kind of silly.

I agree.

> As to the everything discussion, please don't.  That horse is dead a few
> times over and from past discussions this would not be the list to have
> that discussion yet again.

Maybe we need an "install nothing" option.

More productive would be an option to install all -devel packages whenever 
you install a package.  (Maybe an option if you check "Developer".)

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