Re: unecessary binaries

[Nico Schottelius]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:45:06 +0200
> > From: Nico Schottelius <address@hidden>
> >
> > I don't know why the authors of GNU Coding standards
> > do not want a binary with different names,
>
> If you read the GNU coding standards you'll see an explanation of that.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_16.html#SEC16

okay, but what about

"Instead, use a run time option..." ?

Again, I think ls would be really enough.
We should try to integrate old dos users,
but still remember we are a Un*x like system
and not dos. It seems to me that we spam our
harddisk with unecessary binaries! If egrep/grep are
also the same, I am wondering how many MBs of my hd
are lost!

What I mean is not only the practical side. If we go on
replicating binaries just to change an option, where will we end ?

Nico