Re: [dev] sbase installed first impressions

2016-10-04 Thread stephen Turner
Thanks Alex. I have followed landley as well and he is pretty sharp especially on history. He does make a valid point that we really don't need the file system laid out the way it is, and i can see why people would like to have it set up more simply like stali. I myself was tempted with the

Re: [dev] sbase installed first impressions

2016-10-04 Thread stephen Turner
Thanks for all the great feedback! I installed sbase and ubase but it doesn't appear that suckless assigns them to the proper directories e.g. /bin /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin however everything is placed into /usr/local/bin. I assume there was a thought or reason? Perhaps leaving it open for

Re: [dev] sbase installed first impressions

2016-10-03 Thread Greg Reagle
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016, at 17:23, stephen Turner wrote: > I see a few items have the -i removed, I can't say i use the > interactive mode but i assume you removed it due to redundancy and so > i'm curious how you would normally do that the suckless way. This probably sucks since I am not an expert

Re: [dev] sbase installed first impressions

2016-10-03 Thread Michael Forney
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 5:02 PM, stephen Turner wrote: > Thanks for the links i will check it out! Also i wasn't aware of the > -F function, playing with it now and that is a big help with working > around the whole color bit. Clearly the / is for directories. How are >

Re: [dev] sbase installed first impressions

2016-10-03 Thread stephen Turner
Thanks for the links i will check it out! Also i wasn't aware of the -F function, playing with it now and that is a big help with working around the whole color bit. Clearly the / is for directories. How are the rest used? Surprisingly even google doesn't know. From what i could see they didn't

Re: [dev] sbase installed first impressions

2016-10-03 Thread Evan Gates
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 4:34 PM, stephen Turner wrote: > @Evan > I am not too fluent at advanced shell at the moment so help me out > with this one please, I checked the advanced scripting guide but want > to make sure i understand this. Please do not read that, it's

Re: [dev] sbase installed first impressions

2016-10-03 Thread Evan Gates
> I have never had ls without color or column included (i'm spoiled) and > google isn't being overly helpful at the moment. I found the cols > command and ls | cols solved that so i can just create an alias, what > about getting color? Is there a suckless solution? An alias won't work here as you

Re: [dev] sbase installed first impressions

2016-10-03 Thread FRIGN
On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 17:23:50 -0400 stephen Turner wrote: Hey Stephen, > Background first. I'm running a simple kernel, busybox, make, pcc, > musl, binutils (patched for ash) environment. Its run from ram so i > can trash the environment as many times as i care to

[dev] sbase installed first impressions

2016-10-03 Thread stephen Turner
Background first. I'm running a simple kernel, busybox, make, pcc, musl, binutils (patched for ash) environment. Its run from ram so i can trash the environment as many times as i care to reboot. That being said I decided to install suckless in place allowing it to overwrite the busybox links just