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>On Linux, more is part of the util-linux package but its manpage outright tells you to use less instead On minimal distros (say, Debian in the minbase configu
by voltagex_ 10y ago
>On Linux, more is part of the util-linux package but its manpage outright tells you to use less instead
On minimal distros (say, Debian in the minbase configuration), more is more likely to be included than less. I haven't used any other small distros for a while but is util-linux normally there instead of other packages (actually, I wonder why minbase doesn't just use busybox).
- ajdlinux 10y agoNot a debootstrap or any sort of Debian developer, but I assume minbase is expected to be strictly a subset of the packages one would find on a regular Debian system, which would imply having bash, dash, util-linux and so on, rather than attempting to use busybox (which is Priority: optional).
- mjevans 10y agoThere's still a need to at least include the hard/sym-link to less, and if you do that you should probably communicate why. (E.G. so that when someone digs out a floppy disk from who knows how long ago with a recently deceased relative's old scripts on it they'll still work.) Also, that more's features are more likely to end up in something seriously constrained (busybox) means that if you're ever stuck on a really low end system you can still use more to get some critical things done (like page through a file or result set too large to read correctly otherwise).