Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:35:28 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnu system program vs BSD. Opinions ? Message-ID: <20001217233528.S96105@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <E147ugb-0005bF-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:26:17AM %2B0000 References: <E147ugb-0005bF-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:26:17AM +0000, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Hello, > Apart from personal preferences is there any compelling reason > to not use GNU system programs instead of BSD ones ? > (e.g. du, df.. make ?). Noooooooooo........................ Please take the inevitable religious debate to -advocacy. > Will anything "break" if I just choose the ones I like best > which may include some GNU ones ? If you mean to install GNU tools _over_ the BSD versions in /bin, /usr/bin, etc., you will break things. If you just put them elsewhere in the tree, say a /usr/gnu or in /usr/local, you should be OK. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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