From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 17 23:45:48 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 23:45:46 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4010E37B400 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:45:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 147uzQ-0004Rk-00; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:45:44 +0000 To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Cliff Sarginson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: Gnu system program vs BSD. Opinions ? Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:45:44 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.24.58 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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