Simon McVittie writes: > which(1) is non-standardized, which is likely to be part of the reason > why Debian has its own implementation not shared with other Linux > distributions. Some other Linux distributions, for example Fedora and > Arch Linux, use GNU Which <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/which/> and > that doesn't seem to support the -s option either (but does support a lot > of other non-standard options). Adding a -s option to the debianutils > implementation of `which` will help your scripts to run on Debian and > (eventually) Debian derivatives like Ubuntu, but won't help your scripts > to run on Fedora or Arch.
Is there a reason why Debian doesn't use GNU Which? Sounds like unnecessary maintenance to me... -- Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY PGP 015AE9B25DCB0511D200A75DE5674DEA514C891D
