Nico Schottelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I mean is not only the practical side. If we go on > replicating binaries just to change an option, where will we end ?
Creating new commands that are nearly identical to existing commands is definitely bad; new command-line options would be preferable. But removing old commands or command names (or any other kind of interface) will break any existing use of them; the gain of a few K on disk isn't worth it. In practice, this would be a bigger problem for egrep than for dir, but the principle applies generally. paul _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
