Subject: Re: why do packages depend on coreutils?
To: Georg Schwarz <georg.schwarz@freenet.de>
From: Min Sik Kim <minskim@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/16/2006 14:00:23
On Oct 16, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Georg Schwarz wrote:

>
> Am 16.10.2006 um 17:12 schrieb Min Sik Kim:
>
>>>> I realized that since very recently pkgsrc seems to have a general
>>>> dependency on coreutils. What did introduce that?
>>>
>>> What platform? (IRIX?)
>>
>> Another data point: I noticed it on Darwin, and it was printf that  
>> had caused the dependency.
>
> I wonder why; tools.Darwin.mk has
>
> TOOLS_PLATFORM.printf?=         /usr/bin/printf

I added that, and coreutils is not needed on Darwin any longer.  :)

Regards,
Min