Re: miscutils

[Pádraig Brady]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    I think miscutils could depend on coreutils,
>    and hence also include generally useful scripts?
> 
> I'm either way.  What might be the danger with including "useful"
> scripts is that every Dick, Jane and Joe will want to have their
> one-liner included.  Remeber that most probobly many people will use
> these scripts and programs, so standard names and options must be
> picked carefully otherwise users will complain; maybe they should not
> be installed by default.

Absolutely. Any components should be carefully
considered and normalised for inclusion.

Pádraig.