Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling compatible multi tools

2005-10-14 Thread Simon Stelling
What would we gain with such a change? You have two tools installed that are nearly equal, so why would one want to have two of them? *me scratching head* -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling compatible multi tools

2005-10-14 Thread Simon Stelling
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: How many people have both vim and nano installed? Or xine and mplayer? well, i wouldn't say nano is doing the same as vi. There's a pretty big difference. Also, those people who have both installed probably don't use both, they just installed vi and didn't

[gentoo-dev] Handling compatible multi tools

2005-10-13 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Hi everybody, Please don't start flaming me for this proposal, it's a discussion. Now, we have in tree app-arch/bsdtar and app-arch/tar (gnu tar) that are syntax compatible and can actually work fine on Gentoo/Linux or Gentoo/FreeBSD or anything Gentoo/*.. Now they are probably the only two of