Re: [Fink-devel] fink's textutils

2008-01-07 Thread AIDA Shinra
At Sun, 6 Jan 2008 23:35:22 +0100, Jean-François Mertens wrote: On 06 Jan 2008, at 23:21, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Is there any particular reason why the symlinks couldn't/shouldn't be installed by textutils? And by coreutils itself for the commands where there is no corresponding

[Fink-devel] fink's textutils

2008-01-06 Thread Kevin Horton
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

Re: [Fink-devel] fink's textutils

2008-01-06 Thread Daniel Macks
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

Re: [Fink-devel] fink's textutils

2008-01-06 Thread Kevin Horton
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

Re: [Fink-devel] fink's textutils

2008-01-06 Thread Kevin Horton
On 6-Jan-08, at 12:22 , Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: 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

Re: [Fink-devel] fink's textutils

2008-01-06 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Kevin Horton wrote: The light bulb just went on here, helped by a study of a coreutils build log. Coreutils does provide gsha1sum. I was looking for sha1sum, but that symlink is only in coreutils-default. I'll create my own symlink in ~/bin, which should satisfy the program looking

Re: [Fink-devel] fink's textutils

2008-01-06 Thread Jean-François Mertens
On 06 Jan 2008, at 23:21, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Is there any particular reason why the symlinks couldn't/shouldn't be installed by textutils? And by coreutils itself for the commands where there is no corresponding system command ? JF Mertens