Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:21:26 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org, jharris@widomaker.com Cc: Veniamin Gvozdikov <g.veniamin@googlemail.com> Subject: gstat collision between sysutils/coreutils and base gstat Message-ID: <CADLo8385Lc8YYyL1iRLerjha8wyeM3UabJLOE4=jnfwbBaHhJw@mail.gmail.com>
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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 Thoughts? Chris [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160060
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