On 1/3/20 5:35 AM, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote: > After a bit of research work and making sure one or two things have been > properly packaged, I've developed a PKGBUILD which ensures that a system > has the POSIX shell and utilities (XCU) section installed. I believe > this is an interesting thing to track, and people will want to know they > have it installed... in aid of this, I've gotten two major holdouts > packaged a while back -- pax (thanks to dbermond) and ncompress. > > I'd like to add this package to community, although given it's never > been in the AUR before, it's never had AUR votes... > > One of the advantages of having this metapackage is that someone can, > while installing arch, `pacman -S posix-user-portability` and get > essentially everything one would expect to have available on a unix-like > platform, most notably, the interesting parts of the base group that no > longer have an equivalent. i.e. man-db, vi, patch, diffutils, ed. > > I've only included XCU for now, because the system interfaces and > headers are a bit out of scope for me to package and replace in the > event that they'd be missing anything... and also because I'm mainly > interested in the POSIX toolset itself. That being said, I'd certainly > be open to suggested improvements, should anyone have recommendations > for expanding the scope. > > Thoughts? >
I think it's a great idea, i definitely see myself using posix{,-user-portability} once it becomes available. -- Rob (coderobe) O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
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