On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:43:12AM -0500, Kevin Horton wrote: > I note that fink's textutils package depends on coreutils-default. I > am not convinced that this is a good thing, as it seems that some of > the programs in the coreutils package may cause problems if they > replace the basic programs installed with OS X. But, I need sha1sum, > which is part of the textutils package. It would be nice if I could > install textutils without also installing coreutils-default. > > Thanks for your fink packages.
The "coreutils" package installs all the coreutils commands but with slightly different names precisely for this reason (I think they are all prefixed with a 'g'). The only thing that "coreutils-default" does is make the coreutils programs the *default* ones in your shell. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
