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Install only a few GNU coreutils?
Is there a way to build and install only a few of the GNU coreutils?
The README in coreutils-8.19.tar.xz lists 100-odd, but the INSTALL doesn't say how to install only a few, and the Makefile is (to ...
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Why does FreeBSD use the GPL-licensed GCC?
Why does FreeBSD use GCC as its default compiler?
I am under the impression that a core pillar of the FreeBSD philosophy is not to use any GNU software and in particular, GPL code.
Yet GCC which is ...