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would need to be withdrawn if coreutils was included with cygwin.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