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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:58:08 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Eric Blake wrote:

> Except that even the /bin/sh postinstalls often did mv, cp, or some other
> action involving one of the coreutils.  It's hard to do much of anything
> without using the coreutils, which have depended on iconv and intl since
> their 5.2.1 days.

You're right.  As I said, I hadn't actually thought through this
scenario very well.  :-)

Brian

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