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#339 Kinoite: preinstall inxi
Closed: Won't fix by siosm. Opened by boredsquirrel.

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When trying to fix hardware problems often people refer to use inxi. This lists a few more infox than lsusb and should be discussed to be preinstalled.

I think it wouldnt harm.

This would apply to Silverblue too.

Have you tried running that tool from a toolbox container, potential as root?

As it's not a critical package and should be easy to run from a container, we likely won't include it.

We also try to avoid Perl/Python applications as much as possible to not depend on those interpreters. Silverblue does not have Perl by default for example and it would be great if we could get to a point where it's not in Kinoite either.

Metadata Update from @siosm:
- Issue close_status updated to: Won't fix
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

okay so a goal is to reduce the shipped languages? Yes inxi works from a toolbox container.

All package dependencies should be already preinstalled apart from bind9-next-utils which was stated as a dependency here but not installed in a fresh toolbox.

So installing it in a Toolbox would install lots of dependencies, while it was just one package natively.

The goal is to have on the host just what's strictly needed. Everything that can be used via a container should. Sometimes we make exceptions when there is a compelling reason.
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