We currently disable the kill binary via a configure flag in util-linux, and install the kill command in procps. I propose that we flip this around, and install kill from util-linux instead. The util-linux version of kill supports the following additional features: - Killing by process name in addition to pid. - Listing real-time (RT) signals, and passing them as RT<N>, RTMIN+N, RTMAX-N. It also supports a couple of additional command line parameters: -a, --all do not restrict the name-to-pid conversion to processes with the same uid as the present process -q, --queue <value> use sigqueue(2), not kill(2), and pass <value> as data
neither of those are terribly compelling. procps already provides pkill as a standard tool to kill processes via names and has for years. adding USE flags is easy though, so it's available in all three if people want: http://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a5371bbe754e942377e7778e715ebe7ce3126a31
