Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch

[Paul Eggert]

mwoehlke <address@hidden> writes:

> I'd like to jump in and make a comment here... I have coreutils (5.97)
> built on nine different platforms, but haven't even attempted to
> tackle procps as it is not auto*-based (and so far I have not been
> motivated to track down how to set up the build correctly, much less
> chase down bugs and build errors). Unless procps is fixed/improved,
> dropping these from coreutils means - from my POV - that they will be
> gone entirely.

I know of no plans do drop them.

'uptime' is a bit of a curiosity.  On my platform (Debian stable)
coreutils 'uptime' does its work with fewer system calls than procps
'uptime', so I don't know why anyone would prefer procps uptime.
(Maybe someone else can chime in.)

For 'kill', most people use Bash's 'kill', not coreutils's or
procps's, so they probably don't care about 'kill' one way or another.
At some point I was planning to merge coreutils 'kill' back into Bash
but it's low priority.

'su' is the only one we're thinking of dropping from coreutils.  Do
you use coreutils 'su'?  'su' is so intertangled with security gorp
that these days it's pretty hard to port separately from the rest of
the gorp.