On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:18:02AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > I am contemplating the upload of a version of coreutils that will have > support for file acls. (I.e., mv & cp -p will preserve acls, and ls -l
I think this would be a good thing. > will indicate whether a file has an acl.) Doing this would promote > libacl1 and libattr1 to base and required status. (Or demote coreutils > to optional, but that would probably break something.) Thus, I am > soliciting input about whether this is something people would like to > see. The advantage is better support for acl's in debian (which will be > even more important with the 2.6 linux kernel, as they are supported > without a 3rd party patch). The downside is additional dependencies for > coreutils and an increase in the size of base on linux. This would have the unfortunate side effect that libacl1-kerberos4kth cannot get installed anymore (the library is the same name but completely different), but I think that is a bug that needs to be solved in kerberos4kth (possibly by renaming the library). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>