Re: [Mingw-users] Where did dircolors go?

[Charles W. <cwi...@us...>]

On 4/2/2010 4:36 PM, Ian Puleston wrote:
>> Other files that were in the older coreutils but are not in the latest
>> include (just to list the first few) '[', chgrp, chown, chroot, cksum,
>> csplit, dd, df, .
>>
>> What happened to all the other files?
> 
> Ignore that - I just found them in the coreutils ext (extras?) package
> (coreutils-5.97-2-msys-1.0.11-ext.tar.lzma).

Yep.  The -bin package attempts to replicate the portions of coreutils
which were (previously) provided by the "monolithic" msys installation.
  The -snapshot packages have always been "build and install everything"
grab bags, and hence have always included more than the "stock"
installation provided.

The new -ext category is an attempt to harmonize the two schemes.  Now,
coreutils-bin is "the basic stuff" that the stock MSYS has always
provided, and -ext contains "everything else".

One of these days we'll document that stuff.

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Chuck