Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 21:25:37 +0200 From: Robert Millan <rmh@freebsd.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libutil in Debian Message-ID: <CAOfDtXNUmfDtRxeq7T6%2BqDyXwREyNjSbbPu5_54f8NWsj5b9GQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGE5yCqAFqOEs_93KgojsgkOO%2B3LVTrhX6%2BRg_BS9OLMxbcfMA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOfDtXN2fWQAyGNb_ifH9y=zHO%2BGGnSdWnD8C6BzWDTU_7rWFQ@mail.gmail.com> <20130709113553.GP67810@FreeBSD.org> <CAOfDtXOTqzF9=s%2BUv6%2BMoAu0nrmyGrxJz4xaSJYEfDzRvrKx8g@mail.gmail.com> <20130709165939.GP91021@kib.kiev.ua> <0657575A-BF3A-486F-9582-C01E0FD97E38@bsdimp.com> <51DC4712.20707@coosemans.org> <CAGE5yCpD7WxW6vFtUggYQ%2BBayi1p7fxzq41%2Ba6RCJagqPHV=Fw@mail.gmail.com> <6E057FD0-9054-44CD-A806-3AFD8A7196CC@bsdimp.com> <CAGE5yCqAFqOEs_93KgojsgkOO%2B3LVTrhX6%2BRg_BS9OLMxbcfMA@mail.gmail.com>
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(not that this matters if the symlink option is adopted, but anyway, for your curiosity...) 2013/7/9 Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>: > What does glibc put in its libutil? Is it meant to be a bsdish-libutil > compatability API? or something completely different? How did this > even happen in the first place? It begun as libbsd, and it included a bunch of BSDish compatibility stuff. Then I think it was renamed to libbsd-compat at some point. And it was finally renamed to libutil. I think that's as the history goes. Mind that I didn't live through it, just derived this information by means of archaeology.
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