Re: removal of kill?

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> I see on most GNU/Linux distros that kill(1) is
> provided by the shell or util-linux.
> Should we just remove it from coreutils?
>
> We might move 'kill' to the disabled_by_default_progs
> list in build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh,
> but I'm thinking we should do like we did with su
> and just remove it?
>
> What prompted this was noticing that util-linux
> and bash 4.4 have `kill -L` to produce a compact table,
> and balking at the idea of keeping these options in sync.

I would be inclined to retain it one way or the other, since some people
surely require it, either because they choose not to, or simply
cannot, install an alternate package that provides it.