/bin/date and coreutils

[Didier Arenzana]

2007/5/8, David Liontooth <liontooth at cogweb.net>:
> Are there disadvantages to installing coreutils -- does it or could it
> interefere with other programs? I'm a bit queasy, but I guess as long as
> /opt/local/bin is last in the path it won't interfere.

In fact, if I understand correctly the portfile, the coreutils port
install all GNU utilties with a 'g' prefix ( ls is installed as
/opt/local/bin/gls , and so on) . So there shouldn't be a conflict
with the native utilities.

There's a variant 'with_default_names' that also create links between
the g-name and the native name (it creates a  link from
/opt/local/bin/ls to /opt/local/bin/gls).

Didier.