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Date:      19 May 2005 09:29:25 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GNU cp location
Message-ID:  <44psvne43u.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <200505181814.13676.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
References:  <200505181212.47900.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <200505181332.31712.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <44psvoi4ut.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <200505181814.13676.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>

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Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday 18 May 2005 14:47, you wrote:
> & Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> writes:
> &
> & > Sorry I should have said -- I am compiling the open office  sources:
> & > /OpenOffice1.9.100-1/SRC680_m100/config_office
> &
> & The ports system will build OpenOffice pretty nicely.
> & One of the things it does is installs the coreutils port, which
> & includes the Gnu cp program.
> 
> Interesting  - is there somewhere a database of dependencies? I tried to look 
> up gnucp on the freebsd site but drew a blank -- access to a datase would be 
> useful. Actually the latest port does not install coreutils automatically - 
> it just looks for gnucp and yells when you do not have it!!

Which "latest port"?  /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/ definitely
will install coreutils if it doesn't find gcp.

That's the biggest advantage of the FreeBSD ports system; it *does*
track dependencies.
-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/



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