On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 09:21:26AM +0000, Chris Rees wrote: > Hey all, > > Traditionally we've tended to use the 'g' prefix for GNU utilities; > gmake, gtar etc, but apparently with stat that is a problem [1], due > to the different gstat utility in base. > > I'm reluctant to simply rename the coreutils to gnu- prefixes, because > that would upset quite a lot of things! > > We either need to: > > 1) Rename to coreutils to gnu- like most of the rest of the non-GNU > world and deal with the breakage (!) > 2) Make gstat an OPTION, off by default > 3) Be horribly inconsistent and rename gstat to gnustat > > Thoughts? > > Chris > > [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160060
If anyone is building upon or relying on g* utils installed by ports to /usr/local then that is an incredible FAIL! in it self and they should be moving toward a system that has the functionality they need in the first place. gnu-* is a good idea. There will be more utilities that will link to these than g* _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
