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> GNU also has gotten in the habit over the years of randomly shifting flags around for no real reason other than to make sure that they stay as the coreutils.
by rascul 4y ago
> GNU also has gotten in the habit over the years of randomly shifting flags around for no real reason other than to make sure that they stay as the coreutils.
Do you have examples of this?
- rascul 4y agoAfter some thinking, I do recall GNU Tar in I think the late '90s changed the bzip2 options a few times. Not sure the reasoning. Might be something in mailing lists but I don't really care to go digging.