On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:10:23AM -0400, Carl Schmidt wrote:

> Get rid of gnu-sort from contrib and use NetBSD's sort, which was
> imported five months ago but apparently never incorporated into the
> build process.

It was, briefly, but was backed out because it's not a sufficiently
complete replacement for everyone's liking.

> Gnu-sort does not appear to understand +# arguments whereas NetBSD's
> sort does.

It's actually a case of NetBSD's sort not disabling non-standard
behaviour when you ask it to.

Kris

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