On 01/07/10 15:36, Bob Proulx wrote: > Does it really belong in coreutils installed on every computer in the > known universe? I don't think my GNU toaster needs it. So I would > vote against putting it in coreutils. It would be fine in a different > project package however. This doesn't feel like a coreutils program. > More like a dev-utils program. >
Well, most of the times I am at a customer, I am working on their production machines (or User Acceptance Testing, or QA), trying to fix something on their environment -- and these as usually as far as possible from dev tools. Sometimes I do get to do development, and then I have the time to set it up, if needed. Finding out an errno in production is as important as on development, and they do happen. Making this a dev-utils thingie will very much guarantee I will *never* see it in prod/QA/UAT. So, yes, I think this would make sense to belong to coreutils (from my own quite biased view, of course) ..C..
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