[csw-maintainers] coreutils

[Philip Brown]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Fri Nov 20 14:25:02 -0500 2009:
>>
>> for example, one of them that you named, CSWshutils, has 3 packages
>> depending on it.
>
> Ok, bigger job, but the payoff is worthwhile.
>

A thought:


one way to handle this, over a LONG term, would be to define a virtual
package CSWcoreutils
(hmm.. or CSWgcoreutils, or CSWgnucoreutils might be better)
which depended  on all the ones it will eventually replace.

Then you could focus on updating dependancies to point at the new
package, over time.

THEN, once things are finally all pointing at the new package, you
would then be free and clear to do your original planned "easy way".


Contrariwise, you could compile coreutils, but actually have it split
up into the old-style packages, release it now as-is (replacing those
older CSWgxxx packages), and that wya, leave the dependancies alone
:-)