On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 15:03 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > See ticket #3095. > > I'm starting to write the instructions for updating procps to procps-ng. > Right now we remove the kill command from procps because it is > installed in util-linux. Is there really a preference?
Arguments I can come up with: 1) Install the one from procps-ng; 'kill' is most certainly a proc-related utility, therefore it rightfully belongs to procps-ng 2) Install the one from util-linux; it has a couple of extra features (-a, -p, -q) that are missing from the procps-ng version 3) Don't install either :-) Bash has a 'kill' builtin which most folks will be using without even thinking about it. A user needs to issue '/bin/kill' in order to invoke either of the above package's version. I've a very slight preference for 1) but really don't mind either way. 3) was only semi-serious; users may want to use another shell which happens to lack a 'kill' builtin (dash is one example). Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
