Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:43:23 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Wesley Shields <wxs@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, jharris@widomaker.com, Veniamin Gvozdikov <g.veniamin@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: gstat collision between sysutils/coreutils and base gstat Message-ID: <CADLo838mgq0ibwjY8ZhYYvJZuPD8WKCzGS=K=US5gfksbmvH6A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111031151825.GB47233@atarininja.org> References: <CADLo8385Lc8YYyL1iRLerjha8wyeM3UabJLOE4=jnfwbBaHhJw@mail.gmail.com> <20111031151825.GB47233@atarininja.org>
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On 31 October 2011 15:18, Wesley Shields <wxs@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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 > > I don't know if 3 is as horribly inconsistent as you think: misc/gnuls > installs the GNU version of ls as gnuls. Which would then introduce another conflict; coreutils installs gls :( Would anyone yell too much if I _just_ changed gstat to gnustat? It could be a little 'quirk'... Chris
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