UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Many people today incorrectly understand "UNIX
> > philosophy"
>
> This is true, I agree with you.
>
> > It is e.g. not against UNIX philosophy to put libfind
> > into star.
>
> Star should concentrate on being the best tape archiver around, not on being 
> all things to everyone. If star happens to use a library that's reusable, 
> more power to you.

Of course this is reusable.
This is the main idea behind UNIX.
Put good ideas into a reusable form.

In former times, this did only work with complete programs but
now we have shared libraries....


> However, what does that have to do with implementing tools inside of other 
> tools? If I understood you correctly, libfind is a library, not a tool.

Do you like to get the slides from my GUUG & Linux days Talk?

Jörg

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