Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:18:25 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, jharris@widomaker.com, Veniamin Gvozdikov <g.veniamin@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: gstat collision between sysutils/coreutils and base gstat Message-ID: <20111031151825.GB47233@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <CADLo8385Lc8YYyL1iRLerjha8wyeM3UabJLOE4=jnfwbBaHhJw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADLo8385Lc8YYyL1iRLerjha8wyeM3UabJLOE4=jnfwbBaHhJw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 09:21:26AM +0000, Chris Rees wrote: > Hey all, > > Traditionally we've tended to use the 'g' prefix for GNU utilities; > gmake, gtar etc, but apparently with stat that is a problem [1], due > to the different gstat utility in base. > > I'm reluctant to simply rename the coreutils to gnu- prefixes, because > that would upset quite a lot of things! > > We either need to: > > 1) Rename to coreutils to gnu- like most of the rest of the non-GNU > world and deal with the breakage (!) > 2) Make gstat an OPTION, off by default > 3) Be horribly inconsistent and rename gstat to gnustat I don't know if 3 is as horribly inconsistent as you think: misc/gnuls installs the GNU version of ls as gnuls. -- WXS
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