Re: [gentoo-dev] removing debianutils from profiles

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Sunday 03 August 2003 03:10, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> since coreutils provides 'readlink' now, do we still need debianutils ? 
> the files it currently provides are:
> /bin/tempfile
> /bin/mktemp
> /bin/run-parts
> /usr/sbin/savelog
> /usr/sbin/mkboot
> /sbin/installkernel
> i know we used 'readlink' in portage and in baselayout, but since coreutils
> takes care of that, why not punt this pkg ?
> only thing i can think of is maybe 'tempfile' and 'mktemp' are used, but i
> could always put together some small bashscripts to add to baselayout to
> take care of those ...
> -mike

I don't think a bashscript is useful for mktemp. It is basically a wrapper 
around a libc function (mkstemp). There are various security considerations 
with mktemp, so hacking together one in bash is probably not smart. I 
personally use that command in some of my scripts so I think the command 
should stay. I do not know though, whether any part of system uses it.

Paul

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