Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:45:44 GMT From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnu system program vs BSD. Opinions ? Message-ID: <E147uzQ-0004Rk-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. > Oh I am not interested in that sort of debate, I dont have an opinion either way. My question was purely technical in nature :) > > 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. Ok, thanks. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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