Re: The "which -s" flag

[Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY <noon@mykolab.com>]

Simon McVittie writes:

> which(1) is non-standardized, which is likely to be part of the reason
> why Debian has its own implementation not shared with other Linux
> distributions. Some other Linux distributions, for example Fedora and
> Arch Linux, use GNU Which <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/which/> and
> that doesn't seem to support the -s option either (but does support a lot
> of other non-standard options). Adding a -s option to the debianutils
> implementation of `which` will help your scripts to run on Debian and
> (eventually) Debian derivatives like Ubuntu, but won't help your scripts
> to run on Fedora or Arch.

Is there a reason why Debian doesn't use GNU Which?  Sounds like
unnecessary maintenance to me...

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