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<code>Bug#69432</code>; Package <code>fileutils</code>.


debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgMichael Stone <mstone@debian.org>

Subject: Bug#69432: ls, dir, vdir should be hardlinked together
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Package: fileutils
Version: 4.0l-8
Severity: wishlist

ls, dir and vdir are currently three separate binaries created from
the same code (except of three simple header files). A more elegant
way would be to hardlink these to the same binary which changes
it's default operation by checking argv[0].


regards,
Thiemo




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-t

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Package: fileutils
Version: 4.0l-8
Severity: wishlist

ls, dir and vdir are currently three separate binaries created from
the same code (except of three simple header files). A more elegant
way would be to hardlink these to the same binary which changes
it's default operation by checking argv[0].


regards,
Thiemo




<strong>Information forwarded</strong> to <code>debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Michael Stone &lt;mstone@debian.org&gt;</code>:<br>
<code>Bug#69432</code>; Package <code>fileutils</code>.


debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgMichael Stone <mstone@debian.org>

Subject: Bug#69432: ls, dir, vdir should be hardlinked together
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[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]
> ls, dir and vdir are currently three separate binaries created from
> the same code (except of three simple header files). A more elegant
> way would be to hardlink these to the same binary which changes it's
> default operation by checking argv[0].

See #16312 and #43311.  The GNU Project generally disagrees with using
hardlinks (or symlinks) to distinguish between different binaries.  The
argument is that you may wish to install things under another name,
like `gls' or `gdir', to distinguish GNU tools from the standard system
tools.  Granted, this is not an issue with Debian....

Peter




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-t

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[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]
> ls, dir and vdir are currently three separate binaries created from
> the same code (except of three simple header files). A more elegant
> way would be to hardlink these to the same binary which changes it's
> default operation by checking argv[0].

See #16312 and #43311.  The GNU Project generally disagrees with using
hardlinks (or symlinks) to distinguish between different binaries.  The
argument is that you may wish to install things under another name,
like `gls' or `gdir', to distinguish GNU tools from the standard system
tools.  Granted, this is not an issue with Debian....

Peter




<strong>Information forwarded</strong> to <code>debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org</code>:<br>
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On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:52:39PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> See #16312 and #43311.  The GNU Project generally disagrees with using
> hardlinks (or symlinks) to distinguish between different binaries.  The
> argument is that you may wish to install things under another name,
> like `gls' or `gdir', to distinguish GNU tools from the standard system
> tools.  Granted, this is not an issue with Debian....

And frankly, I don't care that much about saving 80k. It's not a big
deal and it's not worth worrying about.

-- 
Mike Stone




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On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:52:39PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> See #16312 and #43311.  The GNU Project generally disagrees with using
> hardlinks (or symlinks) to distinguish between different binaries.  The
> argument is that you may wish to install things under another name,
> like `gls' or `gdir', to distinguish GNU tools from the standard system
> tools.  Granted, this is not an issue with Debian....

And frankly, I don't care that much about saving 80k. It's not a big
deal and it's not worth worrying about.

-- 
Mike Stone




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tags 68921 wontfix
tags 61011 wontfix
merge 224673 55218
tags 69432 wontfix
severity 270139 normal
merge 270139 317503
merge 162921 97260
merge 173065 146208
tags 132477 patch
merge 68603 132477
tags 283638 wontfix
tags 263386 wontfix
retitle 255678 coreutils: du: Please implement sorted (by size) output option
tags 251952 wontfix
tags 341912 confirmed upstream
tags 261552 wontfix
tags 214975 wontfix
stop

68921: Users shouldn't ask coreutils maintainers to put work into recognizing
options after signed integer operands

61011: date(1) is certainly not the place to discuss architecture dependent
issues such as clock implementations.

69432: Maintainer has said he won't fix

283638: Utterly trivial

263386: seq is not likely to be moved to /bin

251952: Very trivial

261552: There is an option that prevents line breaking

214975: No reason put effort into improving devfs support