On 2/16/07, Jonathan Levi, M.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 7:13 AM -0500 2/16/07, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> >(...I thought I suggested removing the package that provided
> >[/sw/bin/rm], rather than the executable itself--but it was late so I 
> >probably
> >wasn't clear in my explanation)
> >
> >It's not "broken", per se.  The coreutils package has newer (GNU)
> >versions of some of the base programs than are provided by the system,
> >but in some cases they don't function absolutely identically.  This is
> >one of those cases.
> >
> >What has been done is that these executables have been placed in a
> >nonstandard location out of the PATH by "coreutils", and only move
> >into the PATH if the "coreutils-default" package is chosen...
>
> OK, for me, "fink list coreutil" shows both coreutils and
> coreutils-default to be installed. Should I remove either one of
> these packages? --Jonathan
>

coreutils-default would suffice--that way you would still have access
to the newer stuff in coreutils , e.g. /sw/bin/grm for the newer rm.

-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
(akh)
Fink Documenter (still)

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