Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:23:58 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Gerhard Gruber cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: UNIX commands In-Reply-To: <35ad2a7f.9297466@news.Austria.EU.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Gerhard Gruber wrote: > >Just install all of the above, and you'll be fine. IMHO it doesn't > > I think that I should have them all by now. Then how come you still have problems with `cat' and such likes? > When a lot of programs is usually used together then I think it is perfectly > valid to put them together in a single package. I don't know about the > majority here, but I'm usually working on UNIX systems and therefore I use > most of the commands quite a lot. And I think that also the scripts and > makefiles make heavy usage at least of certain programs grouped together. This is user-dependent. Not everybody uses these programs to run shell scripts and Makefiles. Others might need e.g. Fileutils alone, and I would not want to force them to download a multi-megabyte file. It is also quite a nuisance to lump together programs which are released separately by the GNU project, since every binary distribution needs to be accompained by the sources. I really don't see any problem in asking people to download several files instead of one. After all, DJGPP is already a lot of separate files, not a single large one.