Karel Zak <address@hidden> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:45:09PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
I hate to say it, after Karel has done most of the work, but I suppose
simply not adding it to coreutils should be considered an option, too.
Opinions?
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:17:32PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
What do you think of a new configure-time option that
would list extra programs like arch that you'd like to install?
I would probably add "su" to the list, since most installers don't
want the version from coreutils.
Also.. I can prepare this patch if you want this configure option.
Hi Karel,
I began work on it over the weekend and haven't gotten back to it.
Should find time to finish by Monday.
Sounds good to me. There is the question of what the default set of
programs would be; one possibility would be omitting 'arch', 'su', and
whatever coreutils already decides by default to omit.
is there any final decision? I'd like to freeze util-linux-ng code in
next few weeks.
We can also postpone this issue ;-( There is no problem to keep the old
arch command in util-linux for the next release.
I'm planning something like this:
Programs *not* to install by default:
su
arch
Here's a minimum list of programs that you may choose not to install:
chroot
df
hostid
hostname
nice
pinky
stty
su
uname
uptime
users
who
I may extend that to include the full list of all 100 program names.
If you want to install one of the default-not-installed ones,
you'd use e.g., ./configure --enable-install-program=su
To add to the list of not-installed programs, you'd use
--enable-no-install-program=hostname
The option syntax is awkward due to autoconf's pseudo-requirement
that such options look like --enable-REMAINDER_OF_NAME=VAL .
I'd welcome a better name.
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