Re: fedora 42 doesn't have awk: how to deal with autoconf subst?

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> It seems awk is going away as a standard tool, and it is possible to
> either fight that or just accept it.

I don't think that the set of "standard tools" is shrinking. Rather,
it's expanding. On OpenBSD for example, perl is installed by default.
Similarly, Python is considered a standard tool nowadays.

Probably some people at Red Hat just thought "how can we reduce the
weight of our default install" and opted to remove 'awk' here and
'diffutils' there, knowing that the user can easily install them from
the package repositories.

Bruno