Some comments about /usr/bin/diff

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 2019-12-22 21:09, Evilham wrote:

> This is directly from UPDATING:
> 
> 
> 20170420:
>         GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some        
> features of GNU
>         diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer 
>         version of
>         GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the        
> gdiff name.

Thanks for the pointer: I had missed this.



> But to be fair I am unsure checking this file is recommended anywhere on 
> the documentation for "normal" update flows; maybe it should be?

I don't know... I thought that was only for those people tracking STABLE 
or HEAD.
I think the noise/signal ratio is very high there, for those who just 
use RELEASEs.



> Your other comments regarding diff should probably be documented in form 
> of a feature request + bug respectively.

I filed a bug report for the peformance issue:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242828

I'll skip the "feature request", since I can just use textproc/diffutils.



  bye & Thanks
	av.