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Re: why which?



Clint> GNU which has "features" that aren't present in the myriad
Clint> other programs and shell builtins which do the same thing.
Clint> bash users seem to like it.

Joey> Haven't we generally just taken the gnu version or other more
Joey> "featureful" version and made it the default? On the face of it
Joey> it seems that if there is a chance we can have a more standard
Joey> which that is maintained by an upstream and there isn't
Joey> something grossly wrong with it, we should use it. After all,
Joey> debianutils is supposed to be for programs "specific to debian".

I certainly wouldn't object to this solution :)

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