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cies on Oct 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternat...

It would be even nicer to have an opensource project that pushes a set of these tools, that then can get picked up by the distros such that in 5 year you can expect these all to be included at a reasonable version such that you do not have to install them by hand on each machine that you land on.

On the other hand, you may want to keep some smart dotfiles around that installs them in ~/bin

stevekemp on Oct 9, 2017 [–]

That's the kind of idea that lead to Joey Hess's "moreutils".

https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

cies on Oct 9, 2017 | [–]

Yes. But not entirely. Also the set of tools that he combines is ment to be an addition, not a (potential) replacement.

(Joey is a boss, did not know of this project of his -- thanks for pointing out)

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