Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>> Joel Buckley writes:
>>
>>> My suggestion is to obsolete & EOF the xpg6 directory entirely:
>>>
>> Careful; there have been packaging bugs related to switching an object
>> between type 'd' (directory) and type 's' (symlink).
>>
>
>
> One issue is that such changes fail when there are additional files in
> such a directory; e.g., ugrade turds (*~11) or operator installed
> files. In such cases the directory will not be removed; if we could
> have it move to dir~11, then that should be fine.
>
> Casper
>
Have all the other reasons for having a /usr/xpg6/bin been addressed?
It was never clear to me that this had been done.
I'm only tackling xargs, not the whole directory. Some of the
utilities (such as "tr") are closed source, so I can't work on them even
if I wanted to.
-- Garrett
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