Kevin Horton wrote:
> 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.
About a year and a half ago, the old gnu utils all got merged into
coreutils, including sha1sum. Textutils is now an empty splitoff of
coreutils, so you really want to install just coreutils. This is
probably a bug in the Depends: of {shell,text,file}utils splitoffs that
they Depends: on coreutils-default, though I guess it's there for
backwards compatability for people with the old utils packages that
expect them to be in certain paths.
Hanspeter
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