[oe] [RFC] install-native

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 05:29:33PM +0400, Roman I Khimov wrote:
> On Monday 27 April 2009 16:46:50 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > Hello Roman,
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Roman I Khimov <khimov at altell.ru> wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > But maybe we can just remove 'install-native' completely?
> >
> > I belive the right way to handle it to fix install-native to support
> > what is required.
> 
> Well, current install-native is unmaintained shell thingie. Hacking that to 
> mimic behavior of install from coreutils requires serious effort. Another 
> approach could be bringing install from some kind of coreutils-native and 
> depending every package on it. Certainly possible, but not sure it gives us 
> any benefits as we're already using host's 'install' (starting right up from 
> shasum-native) intensively and it works in general. Thus my proposal.

We have coreutils-native already, why not use install from that and
stick coreutils-native into default deps?

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Tom Rini