Opened 20 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
#3062 closed enhancement (wontfix)
RFC: It would be nice if coreutils could be installed without the g prefix
| Reported by: | jcobleigh | Owned by: | tobypeterson |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 1.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description
I dislike the fact that coreutils installs its programs with the "g" prefix. I want the GNU utilities to be available as ls, mv, rm, etc. instead of gls, gmv, and grm. Would it be possible to make this a variant by adding the following to the Portfile?
variant without_prefix {
configure.args-delete --program-prefix=g
}
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 20 years ago by jmpp@…
| Owner: | changed from darwinports-bugs@… to toby@… |
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| Summary: | It would be nice if coreutils could be installed without the g prefix → RFC: It would be nice if coreutils could be installed without the g prefix |
comment:2 Changed 19 years ago by toby@…
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
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Couple of problems here...
(1) Having them installed can cause major problems if $prefix/bin comes first in your path, since the GNU utils often don't do what's expected.
(2) Ports shouldn't install differently-named files based on variants, because other ports depend on them. Since dependencies don't support variants, there's no simple solution to this problem.