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Re: base85 would it be accepted


From: Bernhard Voelker
Subject: Re: base85 would it be accepted
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 11:18:46 +0100
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Hi Linda,

On 11/21/2017 03:28 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
>     Prog "base32" gets named foofoo.  Foofoo points to 
> /usr/bin/baseN.d/base32, which points to /usr/bin/baseN.  The prog
> only pays attention to the linkname under /usr/bin/baseN.d.

sorry, I'm lost - I don't understand why one would rename base32 by foofoo.

You can build the coreutils with the 'configure' option ...

  --enable-single-binary=shebangs|symlinks
                          Compile all the tools in a single binary, reducing
                          the overall size. When compiled this way, shebangs
                          (default when enabled) or symlinks are installed for
                          each tool that points to the single binary.

... in order to get symlinks to or shebang-wrapper-scripts around a single 
binary.
This saves some disk space in the installation.  Is this what the discussion
is about (now)?

Have a nice day,
Berny



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