[csw-maintainers] gnulinks

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Fri Nov 20 14:12:02 -0500 2009:

> coreutils is kinda a sore spot. It should be an easy build, in and
> of itself.  However, no-one so far who has mentioned it, has been
> willing to do the work to "nicely" transition us to it.

I'm willing to do the work and will add it to my task list.  I miss
'readlink'[1] which wasn't included in the old separate packages.

> (Another issue, is that coreutils is a lot bigger, and it's kinda
> annoying to download the whole bloatware lot, if you only want one
> of the original pieces of it. But that's just a side issue thats
> kinda optional; the main issue is handling the transition smoothly)

The transition shouldn't be _that_ difficult, should it?  It would
simply be a matter of marking itself I with CSWgfile, CSWshutils, etc,
right?  Given that it's a superset of those packages...

-Ben

[1] Apparently a few script-ish apps also miss this too.
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