Re: list of portable tools

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> Personally, since we're already listing some of the programs from
> coreutils, I don't really see a lot of practical issues arising from
> adding any others.  Or am I missing something?

We can't assume that coreutils is installed.  Lots of people build
with the standard system tools for the system being installed on.

As an extreme example, we can't assume 'shuf' (recently added to
coreutils).  'fold' and 'cut' are not nearly as extreme as that, but
they do tend to be less-used in portable software.