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

[Matias Fonzo]

El 2020-06-22 08:04, Michael Siegel escribió:
> 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.

Hmm.. does not seem fully compatible, e.g:

root@dragora:/usr/pkg>ls -1 | more -l
There is no -l option ("less --help" for help)

root@dragora:/>ls -l /bin/more
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Jun 22 22:21 /bin/more -> 
/usr/pkg/less_551_amd64-1@tools/usr/bin/more

The option '-l' does not have a equivalent in less(1)...

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

Just in case, in Dragora we prefer soft links.

> 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?

Yes, it can be done.  But there is also a risk of losing not only the 
possible more(1) options but also the manpage that provides util-linux.