gstat collision between sysutils/coreutils and base gstat

[Wesley Shields]

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

I don't know if 3 is as horribly inconsistent as you think: misc/gnuls
installs the GNU version of ls as gnuls.

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