[arch-dev-public] moving diffutils to core/base

Andreas Radke a.radke at arcor.de
Sun Dec 9 14:00:22 EST 2007


Am Sun, 2 Dec 2007 15:30:00 -0600
schrieb "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:

> On Dec 2, 2007 8:00 AM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8802
> >
> > grub depends on diffutils. i want to move diffutils from core/devel
> > to core/base to get grub working without anything outside base. any
> > concerns?
> 
> 
> See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8793 also. Apparently man needs
> diffutils too. While this is annoying, it's probably just going to be
> easier for us to move diffutils into core, rather than start a
> precedent of patching our core packages to remove deps.
> 
> I'd suggest filing upstream bugs for this if it's an issue.
> 
> I vote for diffutils in base (sigh)


further concerns from other devs or can i get another ok to move
diffutils to core/base?

-Andy




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