Re: [PATCH] arch: new program

[Karel Zak]

 Hi,

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:45:09PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I hate to say it, after Karel has done most of the work, but I suppose
> simply not adding it to coreutils should be considered an option, too.
> 
> Opinions?

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:17:32PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > What do you think of a new configure-time option that
> > would list extra programs like arch that you'd like to install?
> > I would probably add "su" to the list, since most installers don't
> > want the version from coreutils.

 Also.. I can prepare this patch if you want this configure option.

> Sounds good to me.  There is the question of what the default set of
> programs would be; one possibility would be omitting 'arch', 'su', and
> whatever coreutils already decides by default to omit.

 is there any final decision? I'd like to freeze util-linux-ng code in
 next few weeks.

 We can also postpone this issue ;-( There is no problem to keep the old
 arch command in util-linux for the next release.

    Karel

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