On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Paul Jarc wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But bear in mind that the vast majority of users don't have a > > problem because they use these tools via a distribution mechanism > > (.rpm, .deb) that arranges not to install programs like hostname > > that can cause trouble. > > Still, it would be nice to make less work for packagers, and for users > installing from source.
Imagine case of people having some non-linux/freebsd os. like Tru64Unix or Irix. Sometimes it's advantageous to have GNU utilities, imagine find(1), (ls), cp(1), rm(1), tar(1), grep(1), sed(1), xargs(1) etc. I believe it's a good idea to install them into /usr/local and keep vendor supplied binaries in /usr. Unfortunately, I like in general the GNU stuff and therefore I prepend to PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH. And that's how I got into the trouble. > > > What's wrong with coreutils' kill? > > Just a missing feature. With util-linux's kill, you can say "kill > progname"; it will look for processes called progname running as the > same user who invoked kill. Not such a big deal, but it's handy. > > > I'm open to the idea of not installing hostname. > > The GNU(/Hurd) system will need a hostname program, so throwing away > this one may not be a great idea. Adding the -s and --fqdn options to > GNU hostname might make the most sense. C.f. the GNU sysutils > project, intended to replace util-linux. Yes, please make it backwards compatible, at least make in accept the options and silently do nothing. -- Martin Mokrejs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP5.0i key is at http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~mmokrejs MIPS / Institute for Bioinformatics <http://mips.gsf.de> GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany tel.: +49-89-3187 3683 , fax: +49-89-3187 3585 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
