Control: tags -1 = wontfix

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:05:05PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> there is another base64 program that performs the same purpose as
> base64 in coreutils:
>  http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/
[..]
> A friend just installed it from FreeBSD ports, and says that that
> base64 also works the way GNU base64 does if no arguments are
> supplied, though the man page [0] isn't clear on that.

FreeBSD in the meantime switched to another implementation, and the
options taken by the three implementations are so divergent that I
think it is unreasonable to expect any of them to accept the
other's.

Untagging patch and tagging wontfix then, as I don't think its
useful anymore.

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