Re: suming utility

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:08:28AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > Mike Frysinger originally prompted this by asking
> > for dos2unix/unix2dos to be included
> > (though iconv/recode do this in a more general way).
> >
> > I asked around a few mailing lists for
> > what people would consider appropriate for adding to "miscutils"
> > and got very little interest about it, to be honest.
> > Also I'm always trying to minimise the interfaces people
> > need to know about, and so I'm wary of starting a new project.
> >
> > In my opinion possible candidates for inclusion are:
> >
> > dos2unix (not sure about this)
> > http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/timeout
> > http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/truncate
> > http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/newest
> > http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/fix
> > http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/sw
> > http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/add
> > http://git.eu.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=tree;
> >f=text-utils;
> > http://git.eu.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=tree;
> >f=misc-utils;
> >
> > Karl, what do you think about moving the utils not specific to linux
> > from util-linux to "miscutils".
>
>  No problem move it to an actively maintained project, although I'm in
>  doubt that any non-linux system will use it -- the utils from
>  util-linux/{misc-utils,text-utils} are nothing unique. It's based on
>  old Berkeley Unix stuff.

it'd get used in Gentoo on non Linux systems ... utilities like "cal", "more" 
(actually i had a BSD guy complain to me about this one already), "mcookie", 
and "script" ...
-mike

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