Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/math/octave-forge
To: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
From: Dan McMahill <dmcmahill@NetBSD.org>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 03/16/2005 06:04:57
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:40:46PM -0500, Jim Wise wrote:
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> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Dan McMahill wrote:
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> As long as you're working on octave-forge, do you think you can kill the 
> dependency on gnu-coreutils (for csplit) from the gsl stuff?
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> coreutils conflicts with a heck of a lot of other stuff, just to get a 
> build-time depend on one utility which is used for a fairly 
> straightforward task...

if you're building packages as a specific pkgs bulk build in a sandbox,
its not really a problem at all.  After the freeze though, I can take
a look again at csplit and how to get rid of it.

-Dan

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