Re: unecessary binaries

[Paul Jarc]

Nico Schottelius <address@hidden> wrote:
> What I mean is not only the practical side. If we go on
> replicating binaries just to change an option, where will we end ?

Creating new commands that are nearly identical to existing commands
is definitely bad; new command-line options would be preferable.  But
removing old commands or command names (or any other kind of
interface) will break any existing use of them; the gain of a few K on
disk isn't worth it.  In practice, this would be a bigger problem for
egrep than for dir, but the principle applies generally.


paul