On 6-Jan-08, at 11:55 , Daniel Macks wrote: > 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.
But, if install coreutils, that does not provide sha1sum. If I want sha1sum, I need to install textutils, and that depends on the coreutils-default package. -- Kevin Horton Ottawa, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
