ciao christopher, i personally welcome the port since i think these meta ports could be really interesting for the end users (actually i have a personally repository which includes two dozen of meta ports which i mainly use to manage multiple macports installations).
just a trivial formal remark: whilst i understand and agree with the inclusion of flex, it is not part of gnu. regards, — ferdy > On 15 Aug 2021, at 17:49, Christopher Nielsen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > For anyone interested, I created a new meta port that installs all of the > foundational GNU command-line utilities. This eliminates the need to > remember/document them all. > > The port is named ‘gutils-suite’, and it includes the following: > * bc > * bison > * coreutils > * diffutils > * findutils > * flex > * gawk > * gtime > * gpatch > * grep > * gsed > * parallel > > In terms of the included ports, I tried to include those that are the > most-used. And while end-users may not explicitly utilize ‘bison’ and ‘flex’ > that much, many other ports are dependent upon them. So they’re also worth > including. > > Also, the included ports all build and run on macOS 10.4 and 10.5. And at > present, all are buildable with gcc-4.2, reducing the requisite compilers for > old hardware. > > And finally, folks may ask why ‘bash’ (and ‘bash-completion’) wasn’t > included. That was considered; but since not everyone uses BASH, it doesn’t > make sense for all. > > Anyhow, hopefully folks will find this port useful. And if you feel that > anything else should be included - with the caveat that proposed additions > should work on 10.4 and up, and only require gcc-4.2 to build - let me know! > > Cheers, > -Chris
