[csw-maintainers] gnulinks

Ben Walton bwalton at opencsw.org
Fri Nov 20 18:28:20 CET 2009


Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Fri Nov 20 12:04:48 -0500 2009:

> maybe because that's a LOT of packages, and may be not everyone WANTS
> to have all those packages automagically pulled in?

I agree with this, in principle.  In practice though, the decision to
not depends on everything pointed is suboptimal.  Personally, I'm
leaning toward the 'provide your own gnulinks' approach.

If coreutils can be built (and pass tests), I'll be add links
appropriately in that package...to get the ball rolling.

-Ben
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