On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:17:15AM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> Georg Schwarz wrote:
> >I realized that since very recently pkgsrc seems to have a general  
> >dependency on coreutils. What did introduce that?
> 
> It was me, because I prefer printf(1) over echo(1) and have used it in 
> some places of the infrastructure.

Beware that 'echo' is almost always a shell builtin, whereas 'printf'
will not be on older shells - so you can get a fork+exec cost per printf
(which is significant).

	David

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