On 19/09/12 18:07, Joey Hess wrote: > James Hunt wrote: >> Please would you consider adding the 'out' utility to the moreutils package. >> >> If you agree that this might be an appropriate home for it, I'd be happy >> to rework the source repository (if required) to give the binary a less >> generic name (like maybe 'utfout'?). > > This doesn't feel very appropriate for moreutils. Most of its behavior can, > as far as I can see, be obtained by various combinations of existing shell > tools. It doesn't do one pure function that was not previously available > at the shell prompt. > Hi Joey,
Yes, that is a fair comment. In fact, that was its original purpose - to provide certain features without requiring a shell. However, thanks for considering. I'll continue to package it as a single binary. Kind regards, James. -- James Hunt ____________________________________ http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/upstart_cookbook.pdf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
