From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from deepthought.armory.com ([192.122.209.42]:3881 "HELO armory.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1422763AbWLUGhw (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:37:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:10:33 -0800 From: Evan Hunt To: Karel Zak Cc: "Alfred M. Szmidt" , P@draigbrady.com, acahalan@gmail.com, util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kill Message-ID: <20061221041033.GB13134@armory.com> References: <787b0d920612192242x3788f4bfh3be846d4188e3767@mail.gmail.com> <20061220085706.GH5971@petra.dvoda.cz> <45890A78.1030105@draigBrady.com> <20061220104547.GJ5971@petra.dvoda.cz> <20061220214503.0BB4744007@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <20061220235519.GN5971@petra.dvoda.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20061220235519.GN5971@petra.dvoda.cz> Sender: util-linux-ng-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Well, from my Linux egoistic point of view there is nothing what I have > to change with look or cal. > > Yes, I don't have care about others systems and it seems that the > others systems don't have care about look or cal. I really don't see > anywhere any real request for this change. Well, I'm currently working on an improved version of look, and would prefer it to be OS-agnostic rather than living in a package that has "linux" in its name. So I think moving look out of util-linux(-ng) and into something more generic would be a good thing to do. I don't have a personal stake in cal, but I do think, like look, that it's a widely-useful tool and it seems somewhat odd for it to be grouped in with tools that are platform-specific. I'd say the same about several other things in util-linux... col, colcrt, colrm, column, getopt, hexdump, logger, more, namei, pg, rename, rev, script, ul, and write all seem quite generic. (Also ddate, though I'd categorize that as a game rather than a utility anyway.) eh