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Date:      Sun, 16 Jul 2000 13:46:05 -0700
From:      R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org>
To:        Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sysutils/fileutils
Message-ID:  <20000716134605.B89318@manatee.mammalia.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000716121858.A35660@alaska.cert.siemens.de>; from ust@cert.siemens.de on Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 12:18:58PM %2B0200
References:  <200007160949.SAA94972@home.bsdclub.org> <20000716121858.A35660@alaska.cert.siemens.de>

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On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 12:18:58PM +0200, Udo Schweigert wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 18:49:34 +0900, SADA Kenji wrote:
> > I've checked in sysutils/fileutils
> > <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16638>;
> > and now misc/gnuls may have to be removed.
> > Do you have any comment with this ?
> > 
> 
> I just checked misc/gnuls and to me it appears as a complete subset of
> sysutils/fileutils, with one exception: you have to use gls instead of gnuls, 
> and the three other binaries from misc/gnuls are installed with a g-prefix.
> 
> This means: there are no programs which are overinstalled by one of the ports,
> but since gnuls is contained within fileutils it could be removed, also since
> the main reason for gnuls - at least to my impression - was color support,
> which is no part of the base system (>= 4.1-RELEASE)
> 
Except that the color support for base system's ls does not include bright
colors--I can hardly see the blue, and the colors don't show up on my X 
terminal.
I will continue to use gnuls until this changes.  I've looked through the
sources to see if I could hack it myself, but it's above my head :).


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