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Bug 1783903 - Does coreutils really depend on ncurses?
Summary: Does coreutils really depend on ncurses?
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: coreutils
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Kamil Dudka
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: IoT Minimization
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-12-16 08:57 UTC by Peter Robinson
Modified: 2020-11-07 06:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-01-06 13:33:20 UTC
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Description Peter Robinson 2019-12-16 08:57:39 UTC 
It doesn't look like coreutils 8.31 depends on ncurses any longer. Is there a reason that it depends on ncurses? Could it be made a weak dependency?
Comment 1 Kamil Dudka 2019-12-16 09:46:44 UTC 
/etc/profile.d/colorls.{csh,sh} use /usr/bin/tput which is installed by ncurses.  See bug #469277.

You can install coreutils-single instead of coreutils to get rid of ncurses as well as other unnecessary dependencies.
Comment 2 Peter Robinson 2019-12-16 14:03:07 UTC 
(In reply to Kamil Dudka from comment #1)
> /etc/profile.d/colorls.{csh,sh} use /usr/bin/tput which is installed by
> ncurses.  See bug #469277.
> 
> You can install coreutils-single instead of coreutils to get rid of ncurses
> as well as other unnecessary dependencies.

Other than the profile.d/colorls.* what else doesn't coreutils-single provide?
Comment 3 Pádraig Brady 2019-12-16 22:38:04 UTC 
All utils are compiled to a single binary (like busybox).
sha*sum are slower as doesn't depend on openssl
expr/factor limited to machine width ints as doesn't depend on gmp
Comment 4 Kamil Dudka 2020-01-06 13:33:20 UTC 
This was a question, not a bug of the coreutils package.  Closing...
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