[csw-maintainers] gnulinks

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Fri Nov 20 20:25:02 CET 2009


On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> 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.
>....
>
> 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...
>

that would be fine, if nothing depended on those packages.
But... things DO depend on those packages.

for example, one of them that you named, CSWshutils, has 3 packages
depending on it.



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