On 31 October 2011 15:18, Wesley Shields <w...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 09:21:26AM +0000, Chris Rees wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> Traditionally we've tended to use the 'g' prefix for GNU utilities; >> gmake, gtar etc, but apparently with stat that is a problem [1], due >> to the different gstat utility in base. >> >> I'm reluctant to simply rename the coreutils to gnu- prefixes, because >> that would upset quite a lot of things! >> >> We either need to: >> >> 1) Rename to coreutils to gnu- like most of the rest of the non-GNU >> world and deal with the breakage (!) >> 2) Make gstat an OPTION, off by default >> 3) Be horribly inconsistent and rename gstat to gnustat > > I don't know if 3 is as horribly inconsistent as you think: misc/gnuls > installs the GNU version of ls as gnuls.
Which would then introduce another conflict; coreutils installs gls :( Would anyone yell too much if I _just_ changed gstat to gnustat? It could be a little 'quirk'... Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"