Re: Switching to GNU userland and tools - yay or nay?

For just using GNU utilities and update-alternatives like: Note PATH is searched right to left, so if your PATH starts with: /usr/local/bin:/usr/pkg/gnu/bin:... It will search those paths first, and if you grab sysutils/coreutils from pkgsrc, 'ls' will be the GNU one. It's not expected to cause

Re: Switching to GNU userland and tools - yay or nay?

I'm quite curious myself : what problem do you intend to solve? On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Leon Taylor wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am wanting to switch from the default BSD userland (I know that "userland" > is an extremely generic term, but in my case I am talking about

Re: Switching to GNU userland and tools - yay or nay?

I have no idea why one would wnat to do what you intend to do, but you could use the Linux emulation and the SuSE compat packages in pkgksrc.

Re: Switching to GNU userland and tools - yay or nay?

On 04.10.2017 12:49, Leon Taylor wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am wanting to switch from the default BSD userland (I know that "userland" > is an extremely generic term, but in my case I am talking about the defualt > set of programs that NetBSD provides) to the GNU userland, which would mean >