* Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com> [2006-04-28 17:07]:
> On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 19:56, Stephen Hahn wrote:
> >     Much like the use of the XPG4 [1] and XPG6 [2 - 4] environments,
> 
> Note that the opinion for the case which you reference as [4] (which I
> wrote... derailed cases don't really have single authors..)  set a
> precedent that non-conflicting functionality present in /usr/xpgN/bin
> variants of commands should be present in default command variants found
> in /usr/bin/.  (which reminds me, that opinion should be published via
> opensolaris.org).
> 
> I'm not sure this necessarily extends to the GNU command set.

  Agree.  (I was citing those three cases in lieu of finding an XPG6
  umbrella case, but I think text that explicitly excludes the
  requirement is probably worth adding.)

  - Stephen

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