From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 02:00:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FAAD16A4BF for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 02:00:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC6E43FCB for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 02:00:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48ACC1FF91D for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:00:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id 9ED661FF90A; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:00:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix, from userid 1060) id C9027153E4; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 08:52:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEDEE1538C for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 08:52:59 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 08:52:59 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 Subject: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 09:00:13 -0000 Hi, I had been going through /usr/bin to see what I would need for a very small installation and noticed that there are binaries installed multiple times with different names of course. My question now would be if symlinking wouldn't suffice ? From those that I had not deleted I remember the following duplicates that most likely are not all of those exist... Mail -> mail Mail -> mailx less -> more awk -> nawk nvi -> nview cksum -> sum reset -> tset nvi -> vi nvi -> view -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT 56 69 73 69 74 http://www.zabbadoz.net/