On 12/17/18 11:12 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
I find that /etc/xattr.conf is being used to regulate behavior in gnu tools.
Sure, just as lots of other system configuration files do, e.g., /etc/passwd. But these files are intended to act globally throughout the operating system; they're not an exception to the rule that coreutils itself is supposed to portable.
Coreutils should not behave differently on different hosts merely because the coreutils installer on one platform prefers behavior A whereas the installer on another platform prefers behavior B.
