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[Dragora-members] less(1) is more(1)


From: Michael Siegel
Subject: [Dragora-members] less(1) is more(1)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 13:04:17 +0200
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Hi there,

here's a thought on terminal pagers in Dragora:

Let's throw out /bin/more and just link it to /bin/less.

The less(1) command does have a more(1) compatibility mode. So, there
should be no harm in not having more(1) on the system.

On NetBSD, for example, /usr/bin/more is a hard link to /usr/bin/less.

The Linux more(1) command is part of the 'util-linux' package, which –
for whatever reason – also still ships the ancient pg(1) pager.

My suggestion is therefore to build 'util-linux' without those two
utilities for Dragora.

What do you think?


Michael



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