[OE-core] [PATCH] mktemp: remove

[Mark Hatle]

On 6/18/18 11:30 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 18 June 2018 at 17:25, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
>> On 6/18/18 10:48 AM, Ross Burton wrote:
>>> Both busybox and coreutils provide mktemp, and the only difference between those
>>> (and standalone mktemp) is that coreutils supports --suffix.
>>
>> I've got no objections to this.. but I do have a question/comment.
>>
>> Is mktemp packaged by itself in coreutils or do you need the larger coreutils to
>> get it.  (I'm not actually sure it matters, but in the past there were some
>> cases where you might not want all of coreutils, but wanted mktemp...)
> 
> We don't have a small or large coreutils.  Maybe that's a WR-ism?

No, I'm referring to system sizes..  there have been systems developed in the
past that use a number of alternative command line tooling.

I thought coreutils was broken into various packages already.  It may have been
in the past and is no longer broken up as well -- or maybe the busybox version
was lacking some argument mktemp (coreutils mktemp) supports.

The point is there was a reason for it in smaller systems, and that reason may
not exist any longer -- but just be aware it might come back up as a problem.

--Mark

> Ross
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