From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add tcsh. Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:56:19 +0100 Message-ID: <87k3qkjsto.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5112EF85.707@gmail.com> <201302071029.00313.andreas@enge.fr> <51137DAE.2000601@gmail.com> <201302071134.39503.andreas@enge.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47847) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3P9S-0003Ay-BJ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:56:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3P9R-0000pX-54 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:56:22 -0500 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.104]:51945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3P9Q-0000pN-VU for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:56:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <201302071134.39503.andreas@enge.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 7 Feb 2013 11:34:39 +0100") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org Andreas Enge skribis: > "On many systems, such as Mac OS X and Red Hat Linux, csh is actually tcs= h,=20 > an improved version of csh. One file containing the tcsh executable has=20 > links to it as both "csh" and "tcsh" so that either name refers to the sa= me=20 > improved version of the C shell. > On Debian, Ubuntu, and their derivatives, there are two different package= s:=20 > csh and tcsh. The former is based on the original BSD version of csh and= =20 > the latter is the improved tcsh." > I am wary about using unmaintained code for which not even a web page wit= h=20 > a tarball seems to exist, and would rather opt for the symlink. Yeah, probably a good idea to add that symlink in a post-install phase. Ludo=E2=80=99.