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diff --git a/misc/gnuls/pkg-descr b/misc/gnuls/pkg-descr index 69bd9a24d822..3405206f8069 100644 --- a/misc/gnuls/pkg-descr +++ b/misc/gnuls/pkg-descr @@ -1,27 +1,25 @@ -This is a port of the Slackware Linux colorized `ls' program, which is, in -turn, adapted from the `ls' program that comes with the GNU `fileutils' -package. It is based on GNU fileutils version 3.12. The port installs -four programs in `/usr/local/bin': `linuxls', `dir', `vdir' and -`dircolors'. It also installs man pages for `linuxls' and `dircolors'. -The programs are compatible with their counterparts in Slackware Linux -releases. +`gnuls' is a port of the GNU colorized `ls' program--the one most Linux +users are familiar with. The port was formerly called `linuxls', since it +had been adapted from the colorized Linux version of `ls' -- which, in +turn, was a patched version of GNU's stock `ls' program. The folks at GNU +have since rolled the colorization mods into their official version of +`ls'; this port's name now reflects that change. -Standard xterm prior to XFree86 3.1.2B doesn't know about colors, so -you should use color_xterm or kterm (available from the ports -collection) if you are using older versions of XFree86. +The port installs five programs in `/usr/local/bin': `gnuls', `linuxls' +(for backward compatibility), `dir', `vdir' and `dircolors'. It also +installs man pages for `gnuls' (but *not* `linuxls') and `dircolors'. NOTES: -1. This port modifies the GNU `fileutils' make procedure (as originally - patched for Linux) so that it installs only programs and man pages - listed above. +1. This port modifies the GNU `fileutils' make procedure so that it + installs only programs and man pages listed above. -2. Unlike the Slackware Linux version, this port installs `ls' as `linuxls' - so it won't conflict with the normal BSD `ls' program or the BSD - `colorls' program (the latter available from the ports collection). +2. This port installs GNU's `ls' as `gnuls' and `linuxls' so it won't + conflict with the normal BSD `ls' program or the BSD `colorls' program + (the latter available from the ports collection). 3. This colorized `ls' program is not the same as the `colorls' program available from the ports collection. Brian Clapper <bmc@WillsCreek.COM> -07 January 1996 +10 August 1997 |