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On 09/25/2018 06:28 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> mick crane wrote:
>>> have a look in /usr/bin  ?
>> Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin :
>>    https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard
>>
>> /bin is specified to hold "essential" programs.
>> /sbin is its add-on for system administrators.
>> /usr/bin + /usr/sbin together hold nearly 4000 files on my system.
>>
>>
>> Thakur Mahashaya wrote:
>>> no trick to be honest
>> But are you aware that "standard utility" can be the start of a nice
>> dispute among the regulars of a computer users' mailing list ?
>> (Let's see what happens. No real persons or animals will be hurt.)
> $ aptitude search '?priority(required)'
>
> will get you a list of the packages installed that absolutely
> have to be installed.
>
> Remember the discussion about why Debian doesn't have a default
> firewall policy, because everyone needs something different?
>
> Same thing applies here: this is the minimal core that gets you
> a working system. Two things should pop out immediately:
>
> 1. Some packages have alternatives, where any of the
> alternatives will work but you do have to have one of them.
>
> 2. There's no boot loader. A boot loader is optional because it
> might be supplied by an outside system, like a VM hypervisor.
>
> -dsr-
>
>
This is helpful to have! It doesn't quite answer the mail since it lists 
packages of utilities (and not individual utilities themselves as in the 
OPs request), but you could dissect those packages further to find out 
what is in them...

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Re: utilities "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-25 12:10 +0200
  Re: utilities Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-25 12:20 +0200
    Re: utilities "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-25 13:30 +0200
      Re: utilities Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2018-09-25 15:40 +0200
        Re: utilities "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-25 15:50 +0200
      Re: utilities Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-25 16:10 +0200
        Re: utilities "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-25 17:20 +0200
        Re: utilities Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2018-09-25 18:20 +0200
    Re: utilities Jack Dangler <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2018-09-25 14:40 +0200
  Re: utilities Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-09-25 12:40 +0200
    Re: utilities Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-25 13:00 +0200
    Re: utilities Jack Dangler <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2018-09-25 14:40 +0200
    Re: utilities Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-09-25 14:40 +0200

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