Re: Circular dependency on archlinux base system

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>]

* On 2023-07-12 at 22:50 BST, klu wrote:

> Forgot to ask, how should this be fixed properly? According to [1],
> hostname is just not part of arch base installation anymore. I got it
> from `pacman -S inetutils`, but it seems to better not to assume it's
> always available.

It's a good question.  It's pulled in by default in this section of 
mk/bsd.pkg.mk:

  # These are all of the tools use by pkgsrc Makefiles.  This should
  # eventually be split up into lists of tools required by different
  # phases of a pkgsrc build.
  #
  USE_TOOLS+=

It would actually be useful if you could remove it from the list there, 
leave it uninstalled, and then see what, if anything, breaks.

As the comment says, we really should remove that entire section at some 
point and just add the tools in the locations where they are required.  
Not only does that help with code quality, it also helps avoid some of 
the costs associated with creating tool wrappers during a package build.

Cheers,

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