gstat collision between sysutils/coreutils and base gstat

[Chris Rees]

On 31 October 2011 15:18, Wesley Shields <wxs at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.

Which would then introduce another conflict; coreutils installs gls :(

Would anyone yell too much if I _just_ changed gstat to gnustat? It
could be a little 'quirk'...

Chris