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Date:      Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:16:03 +0100
From:      Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Oleg Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CFT: new BSD-licensed sort available
Message-ID:  <4F666CB3.9050107@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmokUV8t3W4CueZuiZC7e=FuVtFu1jq54V_NpRc79-3QG=w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2012.03.14. 22:10, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> So you could intall gnusort, bsdsort, and then some config file would
> determine which was used.
>
> 'sort' would then be a symlink to said magic program, that'd look at
> its argv[0], look at the contents of that file, and exec() the right
> one.
I prefer simplicity. And GNU sort should go as soon as BSD sort is good 
enough to replace it. If you check the wiki, we have set a goal for 
10.X, which is the GPL-free base system. I think it is possible and I 
hope we can achieve it.

Gabor



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