mktemp and util-linux vs. new coreutils

Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Fri Jan 25 02:10:00 GMT 2008


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Eric Blake wrote:
| Now that upstream coreutils 6.10 includes mktemp and arch as standard
| programs, should we obsolete the mktemp package and reduce the scope of
| the util-linux package?  I won't promote coreutils 6.10 to current until
| we come to a decision (and I'm open to the alternative idea of not
| shipping the coreutils version of these programs).

Moving arch to coreutils makes sense to me, but let me look at
util-linux 2.13 before I commit to anything.



Yaakov
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