On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 12:42:02PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > On 07/31/06 12:28, Rick C. Petty wrote: > > > >In both cases, why don't you just use: > > > >/usr/compat/linux/bin/cp > > Two reasons - it's not in the base system, so a port has to be installed > - and linux_base is FC3 now, so if you want to talk about bloat...
And the "-l" option is needed in single-user mode? I like not having extra bloat around when I don't even have /usr mounted and am trying to fix a disk or misconfiguration. I'm just arguing the usefulness of having it in the base system vs. using linux_base. The argument that our cp should be equivalent to gcp seems silly to me. "-l" may be a useful option, but at what point is the line drawn between bloating our base cp and having a gcp port (or using linux_base)?? "-a" certainly is useless. An alias is far more useful-- even for things in /bin ! I certainly cp and mv mapped to "cp -i" and "mv -i".. one could also argue that the our base versions of these use this option by default. Personally, I prefer to do a post-install patch to add these aliases to /etc/csh.cshrc (actually on my systems: /etc/csh.aliases) and /etc/profile, etc. > Another reason is gcp fails to recursively copy a directory that has > symlinks in it. That sounds like a bug or at least an oversight. -- Rick C. Petty _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
