Seems like this issue gets more than its fair share of attention. I
started a round of discussion by pointing out that /usr/ucb/install worked
on Solaris while the default one didn't.
It's just not a complicated program and many other open-source packages
(like gcc I think) find it easier to just bundle a shell script rather than
decipher which existing program (if any) do what they want.
Go for it Tom (Lane).
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