grant beattie wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 07:37:47PM -0700, Phil Dibowitz wrote: > >>> cluster SUNWCnet delete # UUCP >>> cluster SUNWCown delete # openwindows >>> cluster SUNWCperl delete # Sun perl >>> package SUNWsfinf delete # GNU info pages >>> >>> and there's a lot of other clusters and packages I don't install either >>> (like mozilla, staroffice, CDE, GNOME, UUCP, evolution, Asian fonts). >>> I'm running servers -- not desktop platforms, so I don't need them. > > I do the opposite, install only SUNWCreq and a few other things that > real systems can't live without. :) > >> No, I mean ls, ps, df, etc. > > those are the RealThing and many people like them. the GNU > "replacements" have lots of stupid little bugs that make them not > worth it, at least for me. > > what exactly do you find wrong with those base utilities anyway? > just curious :) I can imagine some people like colour in their ls > output, but I don't know what you'd want out of replacing ps or df.
Well, I have to deal with Solaris 8 which doesn't suppor the -h option in anything. Really quite unacceptable if you ask me. ;) Find is particularly crippled... I always have to use gnu find for the extra options. -- Phil Dibowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freeware and Technical Pages Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Suess
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