On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 09:45:08AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: [...#428189]
Michael, can you please comment on that bug, as coreutils maintainer?
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Fixing #428189 would avoid pulling printf into the list of builtins and not violate the #539158 decision.
I'm somewhat inclined to say that it's futile at this point to try to maintain the /bin + /usr/bin distinction. The reality is that the historic purpose of /bin is basically met by initrd, which is based on busybox and not coreutils (and which already has printf in /bin). All that said, I don't have a particular objection to moving printf, but I've been moving things in a whack-a-mole fashion for years and am not sure what coreutils binaries should *not* be in /bin. I could make the coreutils directory structure match the de facto reality of what is in the initrd /bin, but will that remain static? Or I could just move everything in coreutils to /bin. I'm open to suggestions.
Mike Stone
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