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Re: Coreutils musings...
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:20:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: Coreutils musings...
- References: <404EA118.7090906@fangorn.ca> <404EA4EA.4010906@fangorn.ca>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:17:30AM -0500, Mark Blackburn wrote:
>Mark Blackburn wrote:
>
>>I tried compiling coreutils-5.2.0 and I didn't see many problems with
>>that. Another problem I see is that coreutils will cause conflicts
>>with other packages: textutils, sh-utils and fileutils. Obviously
>>coreutils is intended to replace these packages so these packages
>>would need to be withdrawn if coreutils was included with cygwin.
>
>Feel free to ignore this posting.
>
>I didn't search the archives for coreutils before sending this message
>(sorry). I was mainly looking for confirmation that coreutils was
>intended to replace all three of the *utils packages and it's obvious
>from the archives that this is the case.
>
>I'll research the archives more thoroughly before posting about
>coreutils again.
Not to be too pedantic or anything (but when did that ever stop me) but
the only applicable message about coreutils in cygwin-apps is really an
ITP. Anything else is off-topic since coreutils isn't currently a
cygwin package.
I'll gladly waive the moratorium for a new coreutils package.
cgf