On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: > util-linux does not install the whereis command from the utils. The > whereis command is used to find the location of a Unix command and is very > important.
Actually the whereis command is pretty useless because the places it looks are hardcoded in. Much better is locate. I don't mind including it if you insist. > Reviewing the source package I noted that a large number of other tools > are also not installed. What are the reason for this? They are installed from other sources. util-linux is a really ugly package. Whenever possible, maintainers tried to find the upstream packages for the tools and use them. That way new versions and upstream bugs get fixed. Guy
