Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 08:26:19 -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: <20111101122619.GC47233@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <CADLo838mgq0ibwjY8ZhYYvJZuPD8WKCzGS=K=US5gfksbmvH6A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADLo8385Lc8YYyL1iRLerjha8wyeM3UabJLOE4=jnfwbBaHhJw@mail.gmail.com> <20111031151825.GB47233@atarininja.org> <CADLo838mgq0ibwjY8ZhYYvJZuPD8WKCzGS=K=US5gfksbmvH6A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 05:43:23PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote: > On 31 October 2011 15:18, Wesley Shields <wxs@freebsd.org> wrote: > > 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. > > Which would then introduce another conflict; coreutils installs gls :( > > Would anyone yell too much if I _just_ changed gstat to gnustat? It > could be a little 'quirk'... Just rename it. It solves a conflict and is just one of those little quirks about porting lots of software. ;) -- WXS
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