From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 10 15: 2:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C21E437B41E for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:02:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBAN1sE66977; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:01:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:01:54 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Emiel Kollof Cc: Julian Elischer , "Jackie 'business-first' Cook" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system Message-ID: <20011211000154.A66950@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20011210221335.ACEB137B405@hub.freebsd.org> <20011210225536.GA1810@laptop.hackerheaven.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011210225536.GA1810@laptop.hackerheaven.org>; from coolvibe@hackerheaven.org on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:55:36PM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:55:36PM +0100, Emiel Kollof wrote: > * Julian Elischer (julian@elischer.org) wrote: > > ummm, what are my scripts that use it going to use instead? > > it seems to work fine, and it's pretty much an expected > > base utility. Removing it is going to cause quite a bit of confusion. > > I have to concurr here. Who knows what's going to break when this is > removed. It seems to have an established place on every UNIX workalike > out there. I say keep it. If you don't like it, then don't use it. > > Cheers, > Emiel (who hopes for not another flamewar. One at a time is enough :) Thanks to progress we can now have multi-threaded flamewars ;) Wilko [likes to keep xargs btw] -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message