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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] pull: five mutually unrelated changes
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Sami Kerola wrote:
> On 15 July 2017 at 23:45, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The 'big' change in this pull request is to drop reset(1) from util-linux.
>>> I don't think there is any point of keep this script hanging around.
>>
>> Why do you think that.  I find it useful when some application corrupts the
>> screen.  I realize that reset is a symlink to tset, but I find reset easier
>> to remember/use.
>
> The ncurses package contains both binaries tput(1) and reset(1). So this
> script will not work without ncurses, and the very same package has the
> binary that obsoletes the script.

Thanks.  I agree that duplicate functions should be removed.

   -- Bruce