lör 2020-12-26 klockan 11:12 -0800 skrev Paul Eggert: > On 12/26/20 10:49 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > > > It would be nice to reduce that set of tools. > > Well, both 'cmp' and 'diff' are part of POSIX: > > Even awk is on that list, and it's much fancier than cmp or diff. And > I wouldn't support removing awk either, as it's a handy tool in > Makefiles when the shell isn't up to a text-processing task.
Okay, let's wait ten years and revisit that :-) I believe awk will be more of a rarity in the future. > Looking at that list now, the only obvious tool to remove is egrep, > since 'grep -E' subsumes it nowadays. Yes, I think that should be dropped. What about 'install-info'? It is quite GNU-specific. Nothing in gnulib appears to refer to it (except for the make-stds manual..). /Simon
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