FS#2767 - coreutils contains redundant binaries
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Arch Linux
Opened by Kenny Stauffer (staufk) - Thursday, 26 May 2005, 00:32 GMT
Opened by Kenny Stauffer (staufk) - Thursday, 26 May 2005, 00:32 GMT
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Details
coreutils-5.2.1-5 contains /bin/dir, /bin/vdir, and /bin/ls.
dir and vdir are the same as ls except that they accept a
subset of the switches of ls (~50 compared to ~80). vdir is
"dir -l", so those two certainly aren't needed. And everyone
uses ls anyway. Perhaps a symlink (dir -> ls) and a shell
script (vdir is "#!/bin/sh dir -l") would suffice.
Redundancy is not elegant.
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This task depends upon
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/User-Interfaces.html
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Please don't make the behavior of a utility depend on the name used to invoke it. It is useful sometimes to make a link to a utility with a different name, and that should not change what it does.
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This is not a (Arch) Bug.
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