Split coreutils?

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Elan Ruusamäe <glen at pld-linux.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 June 2008 01:59:04 Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> >> The problem we are currently facing is that installing packages to a
> >> fresh system results in poldek being confused about coreutils + pam
> >> circular deps.
> >
> > i guess it's rather rpm being confused? the circular loops can be broken
> > with rpm-whiteout.spec. however i'd support package spliting really.
>
> coreutils rel 3 now has a separate subpackage for su and runuser. Also
> sent to th-test for testing.

The problem with split is that people using su to switch to root will have a 
problem after doing simple upgrade (most people won't notice -su subpackage).

-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/