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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: tcsh vs. csh, removal of the latter
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:41:58
Message-Id: 43D7E1BF.6050803@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: tcsh vs. csh, removal of the latter by Grobian
1 Grobian wrote:
2 > Problem here is that creating a conditional symlink for csh -> tcsh is a
3 > bit dirty, and leaves the user with a system that has no csh in case the
4 > csh is unmerged after tcsh was installed.
5
6 ...
7
8 > Because csh is rather old and tcsh can be used as replacement, I would
9 > like to have csh removed from the tree, then have tcsh always providing
10 > the symlink csh -> tcsh. The situation is a bit the same as Gentoo not
11 > providing an ebuild for sh, and bash just installing a symlink for
12 > sh -> bash.
13
14 How does e.g. python do this for the various versions? You could do
15 similar, if you want to keep csh in the tree.
16
17 Thanks,
18 Donnie

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