What is a good robots.txt for WP ?

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What is the "best" setup for robots.txt?
I'm using the following permalink structure in Wordpress: /%category%/%postname%/.

My robots.txt currently looks like this (copied from somewhere a long time ago):

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /comments
Disallow: /category/*/*
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */comments

I want my comments to be indext. So I can remove this, right?
Do I want to disallow indexing categories because of my permalinkstructure?
An article can have several tags and be in multiple categories. This may cause duplicates in google. How should I work around this?

Would you change anything else here?

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