Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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