On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 08:40:44PM -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: > Hi, > > In the new 3.3.3 upstream update of procps-ng, the skill and snice > utilities are no longer built by default. According to the man page: > "These tools are obsolete and unportable. The command syntax is > poorly defined. Consider using the killall, pkill, and pgrep commands > instead." > > I would like to know if there are any objections in removing them from > the procps-ng package and, more importantly, if there are any packages > or scripts in the repos that use these tools. If so, we should create > a TODO list to port them to using killall, pkill, and pgrep instead. > We could also keep supplying these tools until upstream decides to > remove them for good. > > Another way to handle this would be to include them but warn users > with a post-install message and/or front page news that they will go > away in the next procps-ng update. This way, everyone will be warned > and will have enough time to update their packages and any custom > scripts. That might be the best option especially if no one knows if > there are used in packages or not. > > Eric
+1 to dropping outright. Semi-related point of interest -- Redhat has been throwing around the idea of asking procps-ng to merge with util-linux. d
