gstat collision between sysutils/coreutils and base gstat

[Jason Hellenthal]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 09:21:26AM +0000, Chris Rees wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Traditionally we've tended to use the 'g' prefix for GNU utilities;
> gmake, gtar etc, but apparently with stat that is a problem [1], due
> to the different gstat utility in base.
> 
> I'm reluctant to simply rename the coreutils to gnu- prefixes, because
> that would upset quite a lot of things!
> 
> We either need to:
> 
> 1) Rename to coreutils to gnu- like most of the rest of the non-GNU
> world and deal with the breakage (!)
> 2) Make gstat an OPTION, off by default
> 3) Be horribly inconsistent and rename gstat to gnustat
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Chris
> 
> [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160060

If anyone is building upon or relying on g* utils installed by ports to /usr/local then that is an incredible FAIL! in it self and they should be moving toward a system that has the functionality they need in the first place.

gnu-* is a good idea. There will be more utilities that will link to these than g*