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Re: why which?



On Wed, 05 Feb 2003, Clint Adams wrote:
> > I'm confused, why do we need a whole new package for a small program
> > that is already in debianutils?
> 
> GNU which has "features" that aren't present in the myriad other
> programs and shell builtins which do the same thing.  bash users seem to
> like it.

I just hope any maintainers using those features in their scripts are
attentive enough to (pre-)?depend on the which package, then.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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